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Creative Non-Fiction
Line of Duty
Teaching Transcends Boundaries
Red Ants
The Language Dance
Weeding in Wakayama
Fiction
The Uklak
Generation C
Hand to Mouth
Poetry
One Nation, Under & Counting
On a Pickle, Very Very Very & “Figurative Language is Useless”
Enlightened Alphabet
The Eternal Thought, & The Day She Spoke
Essays
Exactly Where I Should Be
A Quick Fix for English Teacher Burn-Out
Reclaiming Vedic Education
Authors 2020 Vol. 2
Archive
2020 – Vol. 1
Fiction Vol. 1 – 2020
Outside
The Rotten Mikan
Daisy
Julia in the Desert
Cheating
Peppermint Candy
Non-Fiction Vol. 1 – 2020
Two for the Price of One
Teaching During the Corona Virus Shutdown
Context for my outrage—teaching and learning after graduation
Essays Vol. 1 – 2020
This I Believe
Teaching and the Art of Compassion
Escaping from Osaka on the Dreamy Sea Bream Train
Poetry Vol. 1 – 2020
Lament, and Things I would not like to forget
Simply Silly
A Language Learning Adventure with Wrecked Haiku
The Wow! signal, This is home now, and Gaps
Hell-box
Chinese Characters – 3 Poems/ Lessons
Column – In Love with Language
Authors 2020 – Vol. 1
Vol. 2 – 2019
Column – In Love with Language
Fiction
Arab Spring
Blind in Darien
Save for a Rainy Day
Someone Cheated
Creative Non-Fiction
Hit from Behind
Total Physical Response in the University Prius
What to Say in a Knife Fight and other Regrettably Forgotten Lessons from High School German
Poetry
Essay
Interview – Steve Redford
Authors 2019 Vol. 2
2019 – Vol. 1
Column – In Love with Language
Fiction
Contract
European II
Jambo
On the Road to Emmaus: A Wednesday before the Chalkface
The Case of the Purloined Cats
The Gem Polishing Unit
The Lesson
The Seminar
Poetry 2019 Vol. 1
On Finding the Right Words
On Magic, Illusions and Other Realities
On Sunday School (3)
Essays
Dental Floss
Francesca and Stevick
Teaching at Fifty-Six
The Roundabout Way
Unfunny
Non-Fiction
Creating a Tsunami Evacuation Path
MARTIN JOOS
My New Job as Translator
Author Bios 2019 Vol. 1
2018 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction
If
Sorry Not Sorry
The Blue-Eyed Japanese Speaker
The Moonshine
The Road Warriors: A Journey Back in Time
The Worst Tenth Grader
Tigress Strength
Fiction
Deconstructing Identities
On the Way Home
Plum Rains on Happy House
The Crazy Girls Club Detectives
Poetry 2018 Vol. 2
On the Poetic Impulse
On New Horizons and Home Shores
On Sunday School (2)
Essays
Is Free Education the Solution?
The Life of a Nepalese Teacher
The World We Are Sending Them Off To
Column – In Love with Language
Column – In Love with Language
Author Bios 2018 Vol. 2
2018 – Vol. 1
Creative Non-Fiction 2018 Vol. 1
A Teacher’s Dilemma
Cheerfully Building and Rebuilding Despite Fire, War, and In-Laws
Crush
Laughs in Translation
Love In Any Language
My 12-Year Skype Call
Rights in the Matter
Saga of a Layman Turned Teacherman
Taro’s Gift
Fiction 2018 Vol. 1
Immortal Memory
Snapshots
The Acid Test
Poetry 2018 Vol. 1
On Language, Place and Culture
On the Workings of the Student Mind
Essays 2018 Vol. 1
From Chair to Instructor: Reflecting on a Transition
Practicing Spanish with Students in China
Column – In Love with Language
Author Bios 2018 Vol. 1
2017 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2017 – Vol. 2
While I Stand
How Not to Speak English
A Real Job
Beginning
Fiction 2017 – Vol. 2
DMZ
The Gerbil
Poetry 2017 Vol. 2
On Inspiration
On Friendship
On Sunday School (1)
Essays 2017 – Vol. 2
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Ukraine
The Price of Freedom: A Few Thoughts on Learner Autonomy
Author Bios: 2017 – Vol. 2
2017 – Vol. 1
Creative Non-Fiction 2017 Vol. 1
End of Session
Finding Our Way
Making Up Names
An Unexpected Journey to Becoming Bilingual
Praying Hands
Language in the Round
Daisies, Pearls, and Mushrooms – Adventures in Language Learning
The 8 a.m. Class
Fiction 2017 Vol. 1
The Point
Too Many Photocopies
Poetry 2017 Vol. 1
On Boundaries
Author Bios 2017 Vol. 1
2016 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2016 Vol. 2
A New Phrase for Brazil
A Question of Stress
A Term or Two
Gun Shy
My ESS Debacle – Or, How Tomoyuki Lost his Groove
The Awkward Letter
Why
Fiction 2016 Vol. 2
Teachers’ Meeting! (A ‘Morality’ Play)
Vine and Gall
Poetry 2016 Vol. 2
On Resignation
Interview 2016 Vol. 2
An Interview – Susan Laura Sullivan
Author Bios 2016 – Vol. 2
2016 – Vol. 1
Creative Non-Fiction 2016 – Vol. 1
A Visit to Mod’s
Changing the Subject
Don’t Know Much About the French I Took
Fiction 2016 – Vol. 1
Four Days
Rubber Gloves
The Rain in Nagoya
Tiger Gate
Poetry 2016 Vol. 1
Thoughts on Poetry in the EFL Classroom
Essays 2016 – Vol. 1
Better Than the Browns
Wearing the Other Hat
Author Bios 2016 – Vol. 1
2015 – Vol. 2
Fiction 2015 Vol.2
A Crash Course in Conditional Clauses, a Hanoi Story
Dear Sir
Creative Non-Fiction 2015 Vol. 2
Anyone Listening? I’m Home
Staring at Walls
Poetry 2015 Vol 2
On Classroom Conflict
Essays 2015 Vol. 2
Gourmet Teaching
What is holding us back from becoming better writers?
Author Bios: 2015 Vol. 2
2015 – Vol. 1
Fiction 2015 Vol. 1
Where is Lion?
Hello Kitty
Reasons for Song
An Early Spring for Alex
Creative Non-Fiction 2015 Vol. 1
Meadow School: Teaching with Nature
Catching Breath in Nagano
The Writing is on the Whiteboard
The A to Z of an English Teacher in Hong Kong
Poetry 2015 Vol. 1
On Language Use
Making Rain
Essays 2015 Vol. 1
“What Should Adults Learn from Kids?”
English as a Second Life: Juggling Cultures in the Age of Globalization
Author Bios: 2015 – Vol. 1
2014 – Vol. 2
Creative Non-Fiction 2014 Vol. 2
Risk Taking
To Gunung-Gunung and Paths Unknown
Fiction 2014 Vol. 2
A New Appreciation for Mountain Climbers
Poetry 2014 – Vol. 2
On the Spoken Word
On Teachers
Essays 2014 Vol. 2
What It Is Like Here
The How and Why of Me Becoming a Teacher
Studying the Public and Private in France
Teaching English in Korea
Author Bios: 2014 – Vol. 2
2014 – Vol. 1
Fiction
A Snapshot of Sad
Mr Chizuwa
Ji-
The Little Suicides
Reading the Signs in Seoul
Class Act
Poetry
On Teaching and Learning
On the Written Word
Creative Non-Fiction
A Good Thing
The Far Country
Snakes Nudity Brats – Day 1
The English Metamorphosis of ESL Students and Me
The Nosy Teacher
Interviews
From English Teacher to Art Curator
Essays and Reviews
Language Acquisition
Barack and A Hard Place
Author Bios: 2014 – Vol. 1
2013 – Vol. 1
Fiction
The Barbarian
Harry Cherry Tomatoe
Toilet Slippers and Other Disasters
Poetry
Creative Non-fiction
The Battle of Mianzi
Counseling Mind
Just Like in the West
Native Language
Snow Angels
Essays and Reviews
English in China: A Miraculous & Conflicted Encounter
Author Bios: 2013 – Vol. 1
Author Index
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Fiction 2017 Vol. 1
The Point
By Chris Mares
Too Many Photocopies
By Kat Bryk