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Poem / Non-Fiction

February 05, 2025

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Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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She carried more than a suitcase across the sea. She carried a name in two languages, a heart full of memories, and the longing of a home she left behind. Read More

Tags: family, immigration, angels, grandparents

A short, dystopian story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's, The Little Match Girl. Read More

Tags: immigration, candle, dystopian, internment, xenophobia

Tags: immigration, refugees, borders

A California sea town is besieged by a plague which only exists to camouflage a White-hating darkie delivering tsunami. Read More

Tags: immigration, tsunami, disaster, wave, flooding

Angel Castillo writes a letter to his love interest back at home. He summarizes his journey escaping his country and crossing the American border. Read More

Tags: immigration, journey, letter

The vote fell short to impeach Mayorkas. Read More

Tags: immigration, biden, senate, the-house, mayorkas

Biden says he'll start earning his keep under certain conditions. Read More

Tags: immigration, congress, biden, border-control, oath-of-office

Emigration breeds success: Life is to enjoy is about all the processes people can go through including personal growth, how to overcome adversity, find our purpose and succeed in all areas. This book features chapters such as “My path to success”, “Fighting my fears”, “Healing wounds” and “Life is to… Read More

Tags: immigration, entrepreneurship, emigration, personal-growth, life-is-to-enjoy

Tags: immigration, opportunity, ellis-island

Book / Romance

July 22, 2023

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Comments: 1

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Jane Stepanoff is in her thirties and newly single. Disillusioned by her bad luck with men, she takes a chance on an arranged marriage with an heir to a Pakistani landowning dynasty. Mahsood Khan has always known that his parents would select his wife and has long been engaged to… Read More

Tags: immigration, arranged-marriage, strong-female

Tags: immigration, restrictions, boundaries, freedom-of-speech

After years of uncontrolled immigration, the US is taken over by foreign Muslims, who are in the process of establishing worldwide Sharia law. Ralph Modesto, a “rich white devil” and operator of burner #5 at Humbletown’s “Jimmy Hoffa Memorial Crematorium” franchise receives an e-mail from local authorities charging him with… Read More

Tags: immigration, muslim, isis, us, white-devil

an amateur astronomer from Mexico confronts harsh realities of life for immigrants in Florida Read More

Tags: immigration, astronomy

In hopes of a new life in a strange, new world, Pietro Ciccarelli heads out from his hometown of Patrica, Italy to find work in America of the early 1900's. The ship ride is long and arduous, yet his faith in God and love of family, spur Pietro on in… Read More

Tags: immigration, italy, italians, new-world, new-country

America is a concept of refuge as well as a land of new opportunities. Composer-Pianist Lisa Swerdlow's New Music Shares the Journey of Her Ancestors in the "Coming to America Concerto" An homage to her Jewish ancestors, who fled the Russian pogroms, Swerdlow hopes the music offers solace for anyone… Read More

Tags: immigration, piano-music

This is fiction based on comments from my students over eight years. Their stories tell the other side of racial profiling, the tales of innocent Americans subjected to search and detainment without probable cause. Miguel, as such, does not exist. Read More

Tags: politics, immigration, racial-profiling

This is a story of an unlikely hero---an old Sikh, widower who, owing to his resourcefulness, compassion and love for his fellow human beings helps them negotiate these turbulent and uncertain times of the Corona Virus as they undertake a trip together. Read More

Tags: love, marriage, immigration, help, misunderstanding

Every year at the beginning of October I am recollecting my story “One Way Ticket to Escape from the Past”. Modern Russia under Putin’s reign is the past which I escaped. Today, looking at the country of my former permanent residence I understand even better and better how wise we… Read More

Tags: immigration, russia, canada

Short Story / Memoir

August 25, 2020

Reads: 519

Comments: 1

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Immigration officers have to deal with a range of people and they aren't always cooperative, but when I needed a sommoth passage, they gave me one. Read More

Tags: immigration, africa

Journal 48 A Collection of New Alliterative Verse by ArchDuke Kenneth Khanh Du “My reflection upon the current climate which send heat waves simmering throughout time.” New Alliterative Verse has five set parameters defined by me: 1. A couplet line poem with 20 lines or less 2. Each line contained… Read More

Tags: immigration, new-alliterative-verse, journal-48, immigrants-caravan, the-father-of-modern-poetry

For the little girl found drowned in a river trying to get to America. Read More

Tags: immigration, child

Book / Memoir

May 11, 2020

Reads: 636

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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This is the beginning of my personal story. Leaving my home country of El Salvador and coming to the United States as an immigrant. The short account of this trip describes the story we have heard over and over on the news. This is my version and it pauses with… Read More

Tags: life, immigration, challenges, personal-experience, hispanic-culture

In life, sometimes , situations spiral out of control so dramatically that it leads us down a path that we least wanted or expected. Just like the famous battle of Waterloo the impact it leaves behind is often indelible! Read More

Tags: love, marriage, immigration, help, misunderstanding

A Mexican teenage girl arrives illegally in Southern California, triggering a series of adventures involving an older man and a boy, and an enduring battle with immigration authorities. Inspired in a true story. Read More

Tags: humor, romance, immigration, drama, spirit

Poem / Poetry

March 11, 2020

Reads: 897

Comments: 2

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How would you feel if you had to flee your home and be parted from your family? I tried to imagine. I tried to feel it. This poem was written for students learning English as a foreign language, to instigate discussion. Read More

Tags: immigration, teaching, refugee, humanities, teaching-english

A randomly selected sample chapter from the novel I am currently working on. Thoughts, comments and criticism appreciated. Read More

Tags: novel, immigration, urban, organized-crime, dutch-heritage

This is a story that a neighbor told me on how he came to the united States after World War 2 Read More

Tags: immigration, italy, united-states, world-war-2

These two segments of the book tells what happened during the military intervention and how it feels to be surrounded by the sounds of war. Its not romantic. Read More

Tags: immigration, culture, immigrant

Difficulties in obtaining a visa in a Third World country. Read More

Tags: immigration, absurdity, bureaucracy, visas, culture-clash

Tags: politics, immigration

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