Inklings 2022

together, and all you wish for is to live in another time, a gentler time. there’s something frightening in the way our life functions, how it can end with wrinkled hands and immovable wedding bands or shaking fingers typing a few final words as shots fire just out - side your classroom. and be remembered by fading words on a gravestone or stories and books and videos created by people who never want to let go. our time on this earth is fleeting from the moment it begins. the things we fight and search and die for: tell me. are they worth it all? Hint of Gold Marco Zhao 28