fantasy

Being a bookseller was more about noticing all of the quiet, and hushed fleeting moments, ones that lasted seconds but were cherished forever, the tiny pockets of beauty and joy hidden within the pages that is the love for books.

The eight episode series intrigues with secrets behind every door, but unfortunately, by the end of the first season, viewers are left with more questions and open-ended storylines than answers. 

But of course, such fantasies will only occur in dreams or simulations like video games. After all, I live in a world where people grow up to become employees, not adventurers.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, indigo and the infinite range of colors in between — there is, ostensibly, nothing special about these colors of the rainbow or the color wheel in general. Yet, it is often these ordinary concepts that beg for our imagination to turn them into something spectacular and out of the box. 

It was 5 o’clock on a Sunday morning when I suddenly developed an infatuation with hot air balloons. My obsession took me by surprise. I had never given balloons much thought; it had never been a lifelong dream of mine to fly in one, unlike my friend, who was the reason I was at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

Blossoming with lush detail without boasting grandiloquence, Jimenez narrates in riot against the finitudes of categorization.

At the Legion of Honor through Sept. 5, more than 80 of Guo’s works weave together a vision of grace and extravagance.

While the first few chapters are like a whirlwind, packed with fast-moving plot details that the reader must sort out, the rest of the book smoothly travels through Ren’s journey across Japan — there is never a dull moment.

The concept of “main character moments” has surfaced as the new fantasy that people yearn for. These are the moments that make you feel like you own the world for even just a second, and that all the eyes of surrounding outsiders are on you.

I want to say this was the best sex of my life, but I know that’s impossible. I knew it the minute they unbuttoned my pants; I knew it as they bit my neck.