Author name: Jenny Ng

I didn’t know the country was breaking until the dinner table went quiet and the TV got loud—and I missed the taste of Tuesday-night pancakes. I’m Tom, fifty-eight, born three blocks from where I’m sitting now. My dad ran a press at the steel plant; I ran one, too, until the plant closed and the […]

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta The shoe shouldn’t have been there. Wedged in the desert brush, miles from any town, it was a

“Today, a 19-year-old told me my hands were too slow.” That’s how my last day as a town barber began. No sneer. No anger. Just a flat, bored voice—like he was stating a fact from a screen. “You don’t do fades from an app. My dad said old-timers like you should just hang it up.”

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta The first time I saw him stop in the middle of morning traffic and turn his phone to

The night I collapsed between chalk dust and winter boots, a child I once taught to sound out “hope” held my hand and kept me here. I used to tell my third graders that reading is a kind of rescue. “A book,” I’d say, tapping the spine, “is a boat you can climb into when

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta The diamond struck first—then came the sound, clean and cold, snapping across the marble like a rule broken

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta They called it “express checkout,” which felt like a joke the second I touched the screen. A blue

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta I drove the hospital van because the twelve-year-old boy told me, “Get me out of the place where

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta They shoved a trembling veteran out of the elevator—and the girl who caught his arm didn’t know she’d

This story is a work of fiction created for entertainment and inspirational purposes. While it may draw on real-world themes, all characters, names, and events are imagined. Any resemblance to actual people or situations is purely coincidenta I didn’t draw my gun because he looked dangerous—I drew it because he was holding a crying child.