- Today's tale -
 
The Hugging Therapy
I don't know how to hug myself, so I am spending my whole life finding someone to hug me.

 - Today's tale -
 
Fluctuation
In a pool of dizziness, I spin uncontrollably against the current.

- Today's Tale -

Lost and Not to be Found
Everyday I lose a little bit of my life.
Let's hope what I lost had been used.

- Today's Tale -

In My Dream
In my dream,
I was sweet and simple, smart yet country.

- Today's Tale -

In the Urban Jungle

While others leave their scents to mark territory, the ordorless girl rubs her body into these smells for survival.

- Today's Tale -

The Love Story
Love lost her soul when ego packed up and left.

The Ultimate Scam
I'm a fraud on being me.

- Today's Tale -

Life is a play
If life is a play, can my understudy take over for a while?

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Lost and Found
Life is fully loaded at birth, bounces between lost and found through the whole journey, and leaves everything behind at the end.

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Sleepless in Iceland
4am in the morning, she sits at the hotel lobby, flipping through a book absent-mindedly, across a bold guy. Elevator music lingers around, and the two receptionists are chatting behind the desk, on and off. The bold man, her reading companion, stands up, walking out of the lobby, leaving a chill travels through the revolving door.

Out of no where, a picture of young prostitutes on mid-night Barcelona street flashes through her mind.

- Today's Tale -

Which one are you?

An optimist lives to pursue happiness;

A surviver pursues happiness to live.

- Today's Tale -

Is It a Fair Trade?

I traded my innocence and curiosity for wisdom with Time, unwillingly.

- Today's Tale -

The New York Moment
In the middle of the love making process,
she looked up, asking
"what should I tell my shrink about this?"

- Today's Tale -

Untitled
The older I get, the less I have to say about life or this world.
This fact doesn't make me talk less.

- Today's Tale -

Untitled
Big cities, small towns...some people's dreams, others' realities.
Travelers move from dream to dream having nightmares waking up in realities.

- Today's Tale -

The commerce conspiracy

The snake in Garden of Eden just opened its own clothing line.

- Today's Tale -

Lost and Found
Buried in the New York Times classified session:
"If you see me, please tell her to go home."

- Today's Tale -

Please don't flunk me yet
I came to earth school to learn how to love myself.

- Today's Tale -

This can't be true
I'm telling the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth...

- Today's Tale -

Untitled
I'm my own rollercoster.

- Today's Tale -

The complete self
She broke the mirror with a rock
in order to see every piece of herself.

- Today's Tale -

Dance with someone called self
We try our best learning the rysthm,
constantly crashing into each other,
stepping on each other's toes.

- Today's Tale -

This American Life
Since when Saturday night became Vodka night?
Vodka with strangers
Vodka with friends

Vodka alone...

- Today's Tale -

What's your choice?
Desire for sweets or
resentment after a taste of icing

- Today's Tales -

The ultimate rebel
I am trying everything against myself.

The bartender
He watches hundreds of episodes happening in front of his eyes without knowing any beginnings or endings.

- Today's Tale -

Enlightenment
The non-self is looking at the self            amused

- Today's Tale -

Be

- Today's Tale -

Hide and Seek version 2.0
Baby, if you hide long enough,
I promise I won't come to seek you.

-Today's Tale -

Birthday wish
"Please let me be strong enough to be vulnerable,"
she whispered before blowing off the candles.

- Today's Tale -

Untitled
How do we know when it comes to an end?
The sigh, the period, the increasing darkness, or the fading breath?

- Today's Tale -

The life long battle
Half of me wants to save the world;
the other half wants to be saved.

- Today's Tale -

To Descartes
If you are right, please let me disappear.

Give it back!!
I gave my life everything;
now, I'm empty.

The missing mythology chapter
God condemned her to eternal honesty.
Thereafter she talks about insignificant little things endlessly
not to give the important truth any chance to be exposed.

21st century small business
Snow White and her step mom opened an organic herb shop
selling preserved dry apple to all the sleep deprived.

- Today's Tale -

The collage artist
I cut a piece of you, you, and you
Made a piece of me

- Today's Tale -

Sometimes I feel
Like a Porshe without gas

- Today's Tale -

Be Prepared
The teacher goes on telling her students the concept of afterlife right after the topic of death. She doesn't want these lazy students to think they can slack off after this life ends.

- Today's Tale -

How can this be good?
Every time I have a dream come true, I am one dream less.

- Today's Tale -

Knowledge
Eve was sent to Earth when realizing she was naked.
Where should I go with all this new-found nakeness?
Oh Hell!!

- Today's tale -

Blindness
"I've never failed in my whole life" she said,
and then,
sher remembered her first failure, her second, third...

- Today's tale -

The inconvenient truth
I'm no perfect.

- Today's tale -

Trust building activity
I fall with hands across chest and wish life to catch me.

To Ann Sexton

Stop sharing your innocent dreams,
my lonely child;
Stop telling me fairy tales,
my loving mother.

For what you are longing for is
sweet death,
something beyond a dead soul's reach.

- Today's tale -

Body parts on sale
Would you like my brain or my heart?
If you take both, I can give you a good price.

- Today's tale -

Little black dress
She put on her little black dress before going to bed
getting ready for the biggest party in her dream.

Questions to this world
Do we have to face all our fears in this life time?
Can we leave some of them until the day we die?

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Untitled
Between the desire of being settled and the willingness to settle

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21 century snow white
She went to the evil queen's mirror, asking
"mirror mirror on the wall, could you show me the truth of my soul?"
Then she spent the rest of her life trying to comprehend the faded image reflected in the aged mirror.

- Ode to Andros -

I
This island is made of day dreams.
Fruit trees grow and length of beach expands
every time someone somewhere is
looking through window staring at the sky.

II
If I ever thought I couldn't live outside the big city,
I was wrong;
if I ever thought life needed a goal,
I was wrong.

III
Ocean's salty taste,
heat from the sun on the body,
sand landing on the skin, and
full sight of different shades of blue

- Today's tale -

Untitled
My life is a never-ending rehearsal.

- Today's tale -

About trust
I don't trust the concept of trust.

The Dance Named Life
Music stops when brain refuses to let the heart lead, but doesn't know how to continue the dance itself.

- Today's tale -

The Solution of Global Warming
My unwanted engery can light up the whole city.

- Old tale -

Self-Portrait
Swinging
and grasping
for nothing.

my feet
frozen
in the cold air,

A dizzy wind blows

On my shell.
I turn
round round and round
violently.

The whole world
shakes up-side
down.
I feel nothing
but
scream.

- Today's tale -

Part I: New York City
How can I get myself into a movie theater, when the conversation outside the theather is more intriguing than the movie?

Prart II: the proof
Madison Square Park, May 27, 2006
"You cannot walk around with a gun hanging out like that."

- Today's tale -

21 century fairy tales
The prince has only one glass sandal, so he borrows a shoe from one stranger to another waiting for the other sandal emerging to the world.

The blind girl has only one worn slipper, so she wonders around the world with one wounded bare foot wishing to stumble across another shoe.

- Today's tale -

Stomach ache-o-meter
At the age of 2,
stomach ache was caused by what was picked up from the floor and put into the mouth;
at the age of 10,
stomach ache was casused by the burger in the lunch box or flu bugs from the kids at school;
at the age of 30,
stomach ache can be caused by worry about the future, fight with friends, illness of loved ones, tomorrow's presentation, or the cold left-over chinese food from last night's delivery.

- Today's tale -

Dissolving
Can you see me?
I'm the white smoke dissolving into the air.

- Today's tale -

Not a religious statement
If genetics stays true, human beings must be created by god, since we cannot stop playing god.

- Today's tale -

Out of body experience
I love my life; it would be better if someone else lived it.

- Today's tale -

The embarrassing season
It's too early being spring but too late being winter.

- Today's tale -

Real life irony
At the 56th second of 9:14pm, 2/28/2006, she mourned the lost of her youth;
at exactly 9:15pm, she suffered through deep grief for her maturity has
never come.

- Today's tales -

Untilted
If I could choose, I'd like to live in my world, instead of THE world.

Love affair
I desire a love affair with my life.

- 2006 Love stories -

One day before the bus strike, NYC
"Thank you very much. I hope to see you tomorrow...," said the old man to the bus driver.
The driver didn't show up the next day; instead, he chose to break his silent promise.

Three days before Christmas
Sitting at the opposite ends of dining table, she is looking for the biggest flat pannel TV for him, while he is looking for the smallest MP3 player for her through internet.

- Today's tale -

My little lonely blog
I throw a few bread crumbs everyday wishing someone could find me, or I could find my way home.

- Today's tale -

Sleeping beauty, 2006
One day after waking up, she packed her backpack leaving to see the world.

- Old tales -

Confession
Sometimes, I'm terrified of bening human.

Life
So many issues, yet, so few;
So much to say, yet, so little

- Today's tales -

Oxymoron
While extreme happiness brings up tears, true saddness dries wet eyes.

Perfectionist
She ended her life before making any mistake.

- Today's Tale -

Untitled
After serious and long consideration, she opened her head and set the little bird free.

- Old Tale -

The love story
He used his blood to dye the doll’s dress for his little girl’s birthday. The doll was still warm when the girl opened her present.

- Today's tale -

Darkness
The darkness is so bright; I can hardly open my eyes.

- Old tale -

Dispondence
She is dancing and turning wildly
round and round,
Using her flying blue skirt
to submerge my suffocated soul
to cover my sinking body.

- Today's tale -

If I were a tree...
I'd like to blossom in autumn, bear fruit in winter, take a rest in spring, and show off my yellowish new green under the summer sun light.

- Today's tale -

Mission impossible
The most difficult task assigned to human beings is being human.

-Today's tale -

Lost
I can no longer describe myself.

- Today's tale -

Final verdict
"No, you don't have to go with me. Thank you so much!" she said it gratefully without knowing that she was reading her final verdict of eternal solitude.

- Today's tale -

The sound of high school girls' laugh on my way to work
Oct. 20, 2005, the first time I mourned the lost of my youth.

- Today's tale -

Paradox
My life is full of enthusiastically attached detachement.

- Today's tale -

Life
The choice between a perfect dream and what's in front of me.

- Today's tale -

Destiny
At age of 33, the new line in her palm takes her life to the world of unknown.

- Old tale -

Unbearableness
It’s a lonely thought that I’m different from others;
it’s rather more unbearable to find out that I’m just one of the crowd sharing the same feelings with most of the human beings.

- Old tales -

Soul searching
Please give me a pair of glasses for my soul.

About a bold man
There is no grass on that little piece of land...

- Today's tale -

Shortage
"Ask me questions. Don't you have any questions?" he asks
again and again.
She looks through all her pockets. The only thing she can find
are answers.

- Old tales -

Rain
Rain, like fine feathers
falls in the garden
to kiss
the thirsty
flowers

Desperation
My life is an inkless pen writing “hope“ on the boundless universe

- Today's tale -

Nonesense
Life is not getting better or worse; it's simply getting more complicated.

- Old tales -

Odes to Autumn
How could autumn breeze know the withered leaves are still in love with the branch?

Wind is unwilling to let the dead leaves go, so it turns the leaves into numerous yellow butterflies, flying under the autumn blue sky.

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Untitled
Life is nonsense. It is what it is.

Happiness
Hours hard work for seconds happiness

A losing race
I change faster than my art; the world changes faster than me

- Old tales -

Tragic poet
My imagination is like a bird without wings.

Old-fashioned
His thoughts are so old that even the national historical museum refuses to collect them.

- Old Tales -

Headache
There is a fish swimming in his head.

Sun
Who got hurt?
Left that golden blood spot
on this pure blue sky...

Divorce
Stupidity was born on the day
the tongue divorced the brain.

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Happiness
Happiness never stays long enough. It often leaves the two curved lips, embarrassed, hanging on the otherwise emotionless face.

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Imaginary Friend
"Water?" She handed the bottle to her imaginary friend
in this 90-degree summer afternoon
(Photo by Ted Hunter)

The secret
The sceret is out!
God hid the ultimate price, happiness, in one of the $5.00 designer bags. Have you found it?
(Photo by Ted Hunter)

- Today's tales -

Human tragedy
The real human tragedy begins when Narcissus is appointed Sisyphus' punishment.


The Three-year-old
He buries every secret that he can't tell mommy by the sea