DAVID HAMMA – Portland – 2013
saturday morning the boy, naked, crawls into our bed all is peace and soft yellow-pink light before turning restless and dissolving in tears
Author: march-9
CHARRI HENDERSON – San Diego – 2013
MARCH 9, 2013 WAS A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY MORNING IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. THE DAY BEFORE, IT HAD RAINED WITH A THREATENING OF RAIN…
IAN JAMES – Palm Springs – 2013
Near Upper San Leandro Reservoir My first morning back in my hometown brought familiar smells: buttered toast in my mother’s kitchen, coffee and…
SEEMA MEHTA – Long Beach – 2013
On March 9, I played tourist in my city. There was a visiting Princess Di exhibit at the Queen Mary, a glamorous old…
QING – Beijing – 2013
Because of sand storm, my 6-year-old niece and I have to stay at home on March 9. We are upset so we draw…
ALLENE ROHRER – El Cerrito – 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013, at approximately 10:30a.m. I entered my backyard only to find that I had been broken into. I suspect rats,…
SHANNON ROGERS – Oakland – 2013
I met up with a few colleagues at Cafe Rooz, near Lake Merritt, to work on treatment plan updates for our clients. We…
TOM SHANNON – Park City – 2013
It snowed a little overnight, so we took the babies out to play in the snow. It was a very mellow day and…
ANNA TONG – San Francisco – 2013
On March 9th I saw “Vagina Monologues” for the first time. It’s a group of women reciting monologues about rape, love, sex, orgasms,…
JOANNA CHOY – Brooklyn – 2012
Happiest day to you….miss you and can’t wait to see you soon. One of my favorite memories of dad was when he took…
MELISSA HURLEY – San Francisco – 2012
When I received Jack’s email, I was working from home, beside the back door that was open to an incredibly beautiful spring day….
LISA CHANG – Cupertino – 2012
DIARY OF LISA CHANG03/09/12 Day 76Went to see my therapist today 🙂 We talked about me turning my will and life over to…
ANGELA HILL – Alameda – 2012
Took me a little while to fully wake up. Been dreaming about an octopus in a glass tank that we might use for…
WENA POON – Austin – 2012
SMIRR IN TEXAS – Wena Poon March 9, 2012 was a day of “smirr” in Texas. If you’ve never heard of smirr, it’s…
JACK CHANG – Mexico City – 2012
We pulled up chairs and circled around the deputy editor’s desk, discussing events happening all over Latin America over the coming weekend that…
LEIF BUNTING – Eagle Rock – 2012
It was an urban LA evening for me, a Friday night and my good friend Benny was in town from New York. He…
WILLY LIZARRAGA – Berkeley – 2012
That morning, I had just finished sending my latest short story to a few literary magazines and contests. I had also just realized…