Trying to make your voice heard is hard, especially when the people around you don’t want to hear what you have to say. This caught my [...]
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Sometimes in our childhood, we have the feeling we are witnessing someone else’s story. A story that is hard to comprehend, and sometimes, a story we [...]
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Viet Dinh’s “Substitutes,” first featured in Volume 11, Number 3 of Five Points provides a new personal perspective into the communistic rule in Vietnam. Typically, stories that [...]
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We’ve all been exposed to some sort of addiction, whether it be our own or someone else’s. Either way, it’s one of the hardest things anyone [...]
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Elizabeth Spires’ poem “Ensō”, published in Vol. 18, No. 2 edition of Five Points, details the characteristics of a zen circle. The poem is short, only 25 [...]
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In “The Space Between 4:00 a.m.” by Berwyn Moore, first published in Five Points Volume 17, number 2, the narrator in the poem seems to wrestle with over-analyzation or over-contemplation—something [...]
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