Tag: satire

Creative writing

Winter feels by a girl from the tropics

Posted on by Laya Gil

I imagine going out during winter like silently going to battle. First you wear a flimsy coat, a little silky scarf and high leather boots in November, acknowledging that it could get chilly but you chill with fashion and dignity. It’s almost December. You decide it’s time for the real winter coat, you know the…

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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Posted on by Laya Gil

Words or phrases in italics below are from Douglas Coupland’s neologisms in his critically acclaimed novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Douglas Coupland’s Generation X is a must-read for every mid-twenties to mid-thirties who are sick of his own veal-fattening pen, for every inconsolably lonely yuppie going through existential isolation, for those who are…