Valerie Ngai
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Science • Psychology • Art
"Creativity isn't about being artistic, talented, or good enough. It's about creating a safe space so that your mind can play."
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In a Moment
Some believe that time is like a one-way sidewalk. We walk down it and time acts on us, changing us, aging us, until we accumulate everything time has to give us. If we traveled back, there would be no past selves or past anything, just the empty time frame that we’d walked through. Others believe that time is a motion picture and that we, as time-bound beings, are captured as images on its film. If we traveled back, it would simply be like rewinding the tape to a certain spot and recording again.
By Valerie Ngai4 years ago in Fiction
Heartbreaker for Hire
My name is Violet and I am a heart breaker. Like, literally, it’s a family business. We get paid for it. So that’s why it’s not a huge deal that I’m cutting a hole in someone’s skylight so I can drop into his bathroom undetected. It’s part of the job.
By Valerie Ngai5 years ago in Fiction
the Care Giver
The woman enters the office and sits down across from Dr. Eldinor, the Care Giver. Dr. Eldinor is wearing a black dress that stands sharp against the white chair, the white walls, and the white examination table, in the same way that her hair, pulled back tightly, sharpens her flawless features.
By Valerie Ngai5 years ago in Fiction
