Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash….

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done..

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes..

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw..

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves..

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or ….

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. W….

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much..

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary….