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Happily Ever After…? (cont.)Monic GonzalezLearn from what you have written.And create your many happily ever afters.Love,Yourself.Monic Gonzalez is a first generation Latina from a small town in the Central Valley of California.She loves to spend her free time watching anime and playing video games, and hopes to finishwriting a script during the summer. She’s pulled inspiration for her works from hardships in herlife, and hopes to share other’s stories as well. She will soon be entering her final year at UCIpursuing a Film & Media Studies Major and Digital Filmmaking Minor.NEW FORUM - 29 - SUMMER 2021
pink skies above jirisanDion Kimmy mother used to tell me that sunsets were sadbecause after the glow, there is a blooming darkness.“sunrises are better because there is a whole day ahead of you.always remember that.”village girls never get good guys—we are perpetually fractured like bone china inthe remains of grandmama’s cabinets, sharp and damagedfrom grandpapa’s drunken strikes.what good is learning the difference between sunrise and sunsetif the end result is always a murky twilight?we girls sleep in an everlasting shadow. we are bornand die in it.mother, i wish to see the pink skies above jirisanbut i am too far underground. it seems that diggingis fruitless for i am imprisoned in the roots ofour misfortunes.when one is beneath the soil, there aren’t any sunrises or sunsets.there isn’t an end nor a beginning, only a monotonous droningin my ears by the men who like to smokeby the gravestones, dropping ash on all of theirlost wives and daughters.Dion Kim is an English major who likes to go by a multitude of signatures. The name changesdepending on the weather and the amount of sleep she got the night before. Dion likes music, cats,and sour belt candy. She drinks way too much instant coffee and is currently in an iced americanofrenzy.NEW FORUM - 30 - SUMMER 2021
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