summer instructions [narrative]
By Tarini Malhotra, Chloe Costa Baker, Gabrielle Yuan, Sasha Gordon, Hallel Abrams Gerber and Elaina Bayard | September 16by Elaina Bayard
by Elaina Bayard
PRELUDE
chalk stars
some observations
possibility
my attic and i
My mother likes to bring up that I used to be a heavy sleeper—a good sleeper—when I was young.
I practice curling my tongue, enunciating, moving my mouth in unfamiliar directions. The sounds of the spoken language ring true—I grew up listening to my mother tell me Chinese folktales of a woman stranded on the moon for infinity, or hovering above my shoulder to reprimand me for my poorly drawn ...