Chineseamerican Stories

Shang-Chi changed his name to Shaun and moved to sunny San Francisco in order to escape his family dynasty, but in doing so befriended someone trying to do the exact sam...

The Half Fable, Sunny Fei, goes to the one place where she thought none of her past mistakes could haunt her. Somewhere she and her family would hopefully be safe. Then...

The Jewel of the Orient isn't all that true to its name - most inhabitants of Hong Kong never get to enjoy the high-end splendor the city boasts. Yeung Tze Yan is more t...

How Elizabeth Chen found a missing puzzle piece in the form of Christian Lim.

Joshua Choi has been Navii Caliano's academic rival from first grade to their now junior year of high school. The two have always been stuck together in the same class;...

I wrote this for a narrative project for my English class las year. My assignment was to take some true event that had some connection to a minority to group and explore...

Two friends growing up in the American Midwest, one Chinese-American the other, Turkish-American, have their lives turned upside-down by the 9/11 attacks. They struggle...

Alternate ending to Kelly Loy Gilbert's 2018 YA LGBTQ book Picture Us in the Light.

San Francisco is burning to the ground with the zombie apocalypse, so a family consisting of a pregnant mother, a father, a teenage daughter, a young son, and a grandmot...

Three women, two generations, one meal. Holly is a college student caught in the ridge between childhood and maturity. Doris hovers nervously, a once-loving auntie turne...

Waking up in a different body was just the beginning. Dr. Baiyu Tang didn't expect to die, but Xiang Bai sought it. Somehow, their soul's crossed, and Dr. Tang woke up...

4/16/21 Dear Diary, So apparently I'm supposed to be keeping a diary now. Adults are so weird. I mean, you don't talk for months because COVID has made you realize you...

Love is an agile fish, and those seeking it are the riders of a slow boat sailing on a mellow river. It's a rare thing to find love, a rarer one to catch it, and the rar...

If you were thinking this was somewhere close to crazy rich Asians I don't think you're in the right place. However if you've been scrolling through SAD on fb, constantl...

Growing up Toisanese (the real pronunciation is Hoisanese) in the San Gabriel Valley suburbs of Los Angeles, I was an awkward but observant Toisan Girl. I never really f...

Jeremy Zhang is poor, technically homeless, and lives with his mother and two (half) siblings on the highway, going from one place to the next across the country. It's n...

"Báichī, bèndàn, shǎguā. I hear you, and I know you are calling me stupid." "You don't joke around with friends?" he asked defensively. "I woul...

Mindy Lee's life turned upside down when she got pregnant at 14. She had to drop out of school and work long grueling hours at the only place that would hire her - Molly...

College kid, Jin Chung, always wanted to become a writer ever since he was little. His dream followed him through childhood on the streets of inner city Oakland, college...