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The Talking Tree
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Talking Tree by Barbra Yeko “Lunch break is done, it’s time to move on!” Chebet our forest guide shouted. Tummies full, we all scrambled to our feet, plates and forks still in hand. Nothing tasted better than pilau rice and meat! “Pick […]
Kate Jenks Landry’s Writing Space
Welcome to my writing room. I call it that, but other kinds of working and living happen here as well — painting, playing, sewing, tutoring, napping. It is also not the only place I write. In summer, you are just as likely to find me working on my front porch. In winter, I often write […]
What is Susan Wismer Reading?
The Wild Silence came to me in a wonderful pile of loaner books from my dear poet friend Mary Barnes. Joy Harjo, Sharon Butala, Richard Powers— hard to know where to start. But my hand went quickly to Raynor Winn’s sequel to The Salt Path. I am a walker. When all else fails me, I […]
Tammy Armstrong’s Writing Space
I live with my husband in a lobster fishing village on the south shore of Nova Scotia. When the weather’s cold and moody with fog horns, my writing space is a small upstairs room. My desk came from a retired music teacher in Lunenburg. Hanging above it are two animally prints. The larger one is […]
What is Kate Jenks Landry Reading?
I’m an excruciatingly slow reader, but that never stops me from having many books on the go at once, scattered about the house for me to dip in and out of as I go about my day. I like to keep a book of poetry in my purse, to be pulled out whenever I find […]
Being Rescued
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Being Rescued by Cecilia Vizcaíno I am quickly entering the sea. We are in Miramar, Argentina for our summer vacation. The beach is full of people sunbathing, young men playing soccer, children making sandcastles with canals at the shore, some people are swimming […]
The Virgin
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Virgin by Anandi Carroll-Woolery My younger brother and I were bored. We had come from Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. We had been whisked away from our toys, our books, our TV shows, to the village of California […]
The Delicious Jam
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Delicious Jam by Abeer Shamiea It was early morning, and I woke up to the melody of the songs my mom likes to play on the tape recorder. I heard my mom cleaning around the house preparing for a big project for […]
Twenty Scones
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Twenty Scones by Thoko Hanjahanja-Phiri I am at home. It’s safe and cozy inside. Safe because I am not getting rained on outside. The weather has been miserable for several days now. “The crops are getting uprooted because of all the heavy rain, […]
Labour of Love
The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Labour of Love by Jie Chen My mom was a high school teacher in China, where teachers work long hours. More than 10 hours a day is normal. Because of the demanding job, the government provided teachers free accommodation on campus so that […]
