Iris Yan is a cartoonist who believes life is humorous and prefers to make funny comics. "Before you speak" is in Short Circuit #12, Short Édition's quarterly review.
I sit in a chair
that melts to nothing
beneath me. I close my eyes
because she says I can
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"So, you're happy, huh?" he says in disbelief.
He asks me this question several times during our two-hour get-together, trying to understand how I could feel so much happier about my life than he
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My uncle Gerry Karlsson was a storyteller—a great one. My cousins and I loved his stories and even loved the fact that they changed a bit—sometimes a lot—with each retelling. We'd all listen closely ... [+]
