By Jane Macartney Emerging from the midnight darkness enveloping Beijing’s main street, a People’s Liberation Army soldier pointed his AK-47 at two young men who were crouched by the roadside to watch massed troops marching on Tiananmen Square. He shouted at them to...
By Malik Figaro and Aryanna Qusba I handed my last 10 dollars to the ticket agent. The sign read in bold, “$1 per bus ticket.” I needed these bus tickets to make it to a job agency. There, with a little luck, a good interview and an open position, I might have a shot...
The Hewitt School, an all-girls school in New York, is joining News-Decoder as our 18th academic partner. “As a school whose four academic pillars of presence, empathy, research and purpose mandate a total consciousness, Hewitt is honored to join the...
Paw Paw Nocturne By Karina Pantoja I admit that when slithering pink-honeyed sky is replaced by breaking charcoal-stained night I swallow the busiest road in town and throw it up, its spine tangled among pink hydrangea petals, garage sale signs, wine bottles and...
I use the human race to play my evil game. I’m to blame for wife-beating, guns, bomb flames. I’m the infamous, rash, spirit of violence. By Chiro Awoke Ogbo Violence I am the model of a modern millennial demon A venomous venerated veteran of a special evil I’m held...