West District
"West District had a superhero. Because, apparently, superheroes were real. Min would get a headache if she kept thinking about this."
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our literature
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 18 min
I Accidentally Break The World. Oops
Author’s note: I wrote this piece for a writing contest. We had to write the first chapter of a fantasy story. It could be about whatever...
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 5 min
Thank You DAY
Dear Asian Youth, All good things must come to an end. This will be my last piece for Dear Asian Youth as a member of the writing team....
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 5 min
Letter to You
You don’t remember me. Why would you? For you, it was just another day at school. For me, it was the day you took my voice. 2017, my...
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Wrought With Gold
Listen, dear readers, there once was a story, Filled with magic and marvels and whimsy and wonder, One of trials and hardships, of...
Jennifer Vu
- Feb 3
- 2 min
The Cup of Coffee
A letter expressing my endearment to Vietnamese coffee
Aileen Pradhan
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Dear Baa
A letter to my late paternal grandfather, who I only had the chance to meet once when I visited Nepal 10 years ago...
Eric Nhem
- Jan 28
- 7 min
Mother, Daughter Caretaker
I don’t know how she does it. My mom is a superhero: the Wonder Woman of our family. I’ve always respected her. I mean, how could I not?...
Chris Fong Chew
- Jan 10
- 1 min
老鬼 (Old Ghost)
This piece experiments with memory and the concept of epigenetic memory, where memory is passed though generation.
Angel Anjie Liang
- Jan 9
- 1 min
松柏后凋 (The pine and the cypress are the last to wither)
“Chengyu” are typically four character Chinese proverbs that have stories tied to them. I grew up learning and memorizing them during Sat...
Aubrey Meiling
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Choosing the Dream
“In China, you take care of your family. In America, you take care of your dream.”
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
californification
You will have a conversation with your mother, sitting in between hot-white slats of ladled sunlight, about coming-of-age.
LiLi Xiong
- Nov 5, 2022
- 3 min
Morning in the Life of a 21st Century Student
6:00 am -
You blearily wake up from a dream about a penguin clinging to the edge of a sheet of ice. In its eyes, it has that pleading...
Chris Fong Chew
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
On My Sleeve
My identity is
inseparable from my
culture, inseparable from my
ancestry, inseparable from my
heritage.
Eunice Kim
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
crave
Language shift in American immigrants typically occurs after three generations, with the third generation communicating entirely in...
Aubrey Meiling
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
American Girl
Assimilation was a vocabulary term I’d only read in history books and therefore only used in essays. It was presented as a prehistoric idea.
Aubrey Meiling
- Oct 10, 2022
- 1 min
My lips can move, But cannot speak
[My lips can move, But cannot speak] Wide eyes and yellowed skin Masking the fraud they do not seek Her elusive past lies within [My lips...
Jennifer Vu
- Oct 5, 2022
- 4 min
What I Call "Longing Independence"
Maybe in a year or two from now, I hope to grow out of my naivety and turn into a person that knows what she knows, and learns from her...
Jennifer Vu
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
A Gilded Innocence
At six years old, you would’ve seen me playing with Barbies, wearing rainbow shirts and horizontally striped skirts, and enjoying my...
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