Dana Li
Dana Li is pursuing an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Despite cultivating her career in technology, she has always been a lover of stories, reading and writing voraciously in her spare time. She loves good fantasy/sci-fi, classy cuisines, and roller coasters (but not all at once). She blogs about literature and life at penandfire.com.
Dwindling Scenes by Dana Li
Where does history go—yours
and mine? Those days when we tangled
limbs and lives. No one told me, love
is a bleeding dream: as we recklessly
whispered forever...
Vanity’s Shroud by Dana Li
What a strange old world,
where I’ve got one heart
but a thousand faces,
I’ve got a hundred friends
but one ticket to Vegas.
What a sad old world,
where...
The Knot by Dana Li
Is this folly?
To bind ourselves, flesh to flesh,
in blood and brokenness
and whisper, in defiance,
against the dark: ‘til death.
To mock futility, souls conjoined,
despite the mortal sting
and...
Wanderlust by Dana Li
Won’t you come, and walk these rugged roads with me?
We can drive that beat-up van through stretches of golden cornfield, dappled with dying sunlight,...