...d into repudiating their aloneness. It was an early Bangkok morning with a new day tripping over the corpse of the earlier one the way dogs on the Ban... ..., he befriended his morose tendencies. Basking in the grandeur of his new stature, the back seat Nawin was dwelling on himself continually in the... ... nod. The boy born of the name Jatupon was bleeding inside him. His brain waves wiggled around like noodles. He was no better than this man. They bo... ...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... ...ls finding themselves separately cast onto lifeboats in an ocean of random waves for they found oceans of thoughts within themselves that seemed more ... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ... "Lets talk of them, the ashes that they be. They make up one of two groups of people in your life and these categories of individuals need to b... ...e evanescent nectar in the dissolution of events and time." "Only two groups?" "Only two unless you make up a third. All I know of the futu... ...l training and boldness could persevere to be someone accomplished in this musical genre. He could run to Noppawan Piggy's home. He had the address...

...barely heard her sealing his verdict. One year or until such time when his new master saw fit to liberate him before his service was done. It might as... ...Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 8 CHAPTER 1 Present Day America Mount Vernon, New York Therese turned into her husband's body, buried her face against hi... ...o like a Bedouin warrior—turns to her, flashing an adventurous smile as he waves. In this moment, Therese knows that he is the reason she is here. He ... ...t had seemed so real! She was relieved to see she only had on her good old American short Tasmanian Devil flannels. She stretched as she got up and he... ...al Saudi Arabian garb on display, along with rugs, woven objects, jewelry, musical instruments and other artifacts. The library alone contained severa... ...red at one time to ogle the exhibit Therese had wangled compliments of the American Numismatic Society—a collection of coins and medals from around th... ...hos and kowtowing sycophants. "Hey, Hunter!" Jakob Lundquist spied her and waved from across the crowded room before strutting in her direction. One o... ...llowed him through the crowded living room, weaving in and out of assorted groups of ghouls, goblins, vamps and frighteningly accurate renditions of h... ...ance and appreciate the view unnoticed. On his knees, head bowed, voice so musical and soothing she wanted to join him. Or join with him. Where had th...

...Old World Evil vs New Age Passion ... A centuries old djinni betrayed...A modern career woman and wife bereft...Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's l...

...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...erything merely seemed. In his last conscious moment as he faced the tidal wave that he hoped would claim him fully into sleep--instead of those small... ...e that he hoped would claim him fully into sleep--instead of those smaller waves whose prehensile inundations formed such an ineffective grasp--he won... ...d uncomely Laotian, should seem sensual to him now. No, he thought, with a new idea repudiating the old, the only peculiarity was that as a casualty o... ... minute of temporary derangement that was quite natural in life, a game of musical chairs in which the chairs also moved. He further averred that a mo... ...mirrors could do. Still, while moving out of the toilet and pondering this new justification for male promiscuity within the corridor between the two ... ... all Thai holidays. For it was on such days that happy or speciously happy groups burgeoned rife on sidewalks as a type of rank urban wildflower; and ... ...e steps of shopping malls where the roots of these blooming and ambulatory groups more fully tangled his steps like seaweed washed on crowded shores. ...

... suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

...and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin realized that this new friend of his was not just straying off briefly, so he gradually went... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...nts at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new friend, Sung Ki. That night they slept together; and the boy that had... ...a mokotong. He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually... ... on the steam that rose above his head, exhausted itself on the mirrors, the waves that he had created which massaged his psyche in sight, feel and so... ...nd the mutilation calcified by experience. Seoul Tiger gets on a plane. He waves goodbye to his mother and father from the window. He feels the pla...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

...roblems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t have to endure the problems that plagued China during ... ...een lending so much to the U.S. to keep it afloat that it practically owns New York and California! China, of course, was a vast agricultural... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...tes for a measure you may have to take into consideration special interest groups like farmers, unions or businesses. There is also the political co... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ...rom developing electrical power from the mechanical potential of the ocean waves near the desalinization plants and from power developed by the ebb a... ...nto better education, better libraries, better parks and pools, and better musical productions of opera, musical theater and symphonies. We want the ... ...ino. And I do want to use your recreational facilities and experience your musical presentations. I think every culture has something to teach other... ...three more pop up in your face. But we know this--if you‘re not riding the wave of change you will be drowned by it. In Kino we have learned to be t...

...a filmy form of an arm that began to roll toward him like a slow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at his c... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...ver, after the white smoke rose from the chimney announcing the election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, wh... ... it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to everyone, including the new Pope. When it was later discovered that Pope Francis was not on... ...g," he said flatly. "Oh, for Christ sakes, not you too Walter!” he said as a wave of despair washed over him. “First, my wife, and now you. After e... ...le of days." "What do you think they'll do?" "First, they'll pull in those groups who are the most loyal to them. If I were the Colombians, I'd h... ... been in the U.S. for many years and who have no connections to any terrorist groups, to be framed for the bombings. I want the Americans to believe... ... and prayed to his Father in Heaven, “May Heaven’s mission be fulfilled.” A musical chorus of the ‘Ave Maria’ wafted throughout the stadium, as the...