Morgan Gallup Zhu

My mom had a QR code on her table at Ikea. You wouldn’t have noticed it unless you knew what to look for. It peeked discreetly from under her plate, like a small, secret weapon. Another elderly parent, balancing...

As Miranda's eyes fixated on the blinking red lights of the Level 5 Vernacular Lock, a surge of adrenaline coursed through her veins. The cold, unyielding metal of a gun pressed against the back of her scalp. Glancing at the...

“Cap, you got a minute?”, Officer Draves asked as he poked his head in the Captain's office.  “Come in, come in”, the grey-bearded captain said. He waved them in and gestured to the two dark blue chairs in front of...

“How’d it go? Tell me everything. Do you want a smoke?”, Jialing asks rapid fire as she pulls a cigarette out from her pack of Nanjing Reds and tosses it at Rachel.  Rachel and Jialing are sitting on an old...

I spun around and made a beeline straight for the blue man. My excitement bubbled up as I neared him and envisioned the stream of likes I’d get if I managed to snap a picture with him, right here,...

Perhaps if I had chosen a different restaurant, I pondered to myself, this would have turned out differently.  This particular Italian restaurant had seemed like the ideal spot for a first date. The room was candle lit and elegantly topped...