Catapult Alumni

Catapult Alumni
The Cenote and the Harp

             I thought of the things that were important. Then I asked myself if those things would be important later, wondering all the while about what it would be like to become a thing. Then the captain’s voice came over the intercom, and he gave a rundown on all the important things about the flight, […]

Sep 26, 2018
Catapult Alumni | Nonfiction
A Novel Endeavor

The Writing Journey

Sep 10, 2018
Catapult Alumni
The Pursuit of Perfection

             Later on the same trip, we got stuck in a horrendous traffic jam on a large bridge going into a major city. An early September heat wave had descended upon us. By this time, the temperature had unexpectedly swollen to nearly a hundred degrees. Bumper to bumper, the humans’ blaring and honking metallic machines […]

Aug 6, 2018
Catapult Alumni
On goodbyes & practicing resurrection.

My old roommates bought a house. They are taking the rest of their things out of the old apartment tonight & then the Misfit House will be gone. It will be nothing more than a memory. (I will always call it the Misfit House because that’s what we were. We were the most beautiful collection […]

Jul 14, 2018
Catapult Alumni
The Gift of Forever

            The excavation of the pit had been going on for the better part of two days.  Like many diggers working on the vast grid, Chad was beginning to think his particular stratigraphic unit had every outward appearance of yielding no evidence of early human occupation.  Monotony was kicking in.  The heat from the sky […]

Mar 30, 2018
Catapult Alumni | Nonfiction
Walk the Moon

The distance and the difference between us is just illusion

Dec 30, 2017
Catapult Alumni | Nonfiction
Return to Partition: Finding Pakistan’s Past in India’s Present

The first time my grandfather crossed the India-Pakistan border was in 1947; the next time he crossed was in 2007, with me.

Nov 15, 2017
Catapult Alumni | Visual
Your Life is a Priceless Treasure – Stop Broadcasting It Like a Cheap Soap

Instagram seems to have become a continuation of our lives. People from all over the world seem to post their identities into this network. Right now it seems that this social network started to dictate everyone the ways they should exist and most of them blindly follow the trends. People should study how to value […]

Oct 26, 2017
Catapult Alumni | Nonfiction
University of California, Los Angeles 1940s

University of California, Los Angeles. The Westwood campus. My guess, the 1940s. UCLA came into existence as the State Normal School in 1881. Its original location is where the Los Angeles Central Library sits facing Fifth Street across from the tallest building in Los Angeles, the US Bank Building. The State Normal School was a […]

Sep 6, 2017
Catapult Alumni
From Fame to Success

I am never going to be a famous writer, so what’s the point?

Apr 11, 2017