Author name: Jenny Ng

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 A ten-year-old girl pressed twelve crumpled dollars into our center’s chain-link fence at midnight and begged thirty 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 At exactly 7:00 PM, thirty-two veterans in faded dress blues and battered wheelchairs rolled into formation beneath my

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 Every Friday at 4:00 PM, a rough-looking stranger rode five hours to teach a dying six-year-old how to

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 nurse told me my baby girl had minutes to live—but the hospital administrator said my tattoos made

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 hauled him off in cuffs because a seventy-year-old widow said the biker “harassed” her—then he’s the one

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 stroller’s wheel exploded like a gunshot in my skull, yanking me from the highway’s black vein just

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 purple scarf snapped in the diesel wind like a warning, and for one blind second I thought

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 By the time I heard the old woman scream, the purse was already gone and the thief’s sneakers

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 coincidental. The note wasn’t graded, but it changed everything: “No one would care if I didn’t wake up tomorrow.”

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 coincidental. I heard the scream before I saw the fire—thin and metallic under the freeway, where blue tarps bled