Dean Jen

  • Oct 1, 2025

    The Flying Scotsman

    A long time ago, a girl meets a boy on the world’s fastest train—as it hurtles down the rails from Edinburgh toward a sabotaged bridge. Read More

  • Aug 1, 2025

    Traces of Moab

    A man returns to the restaurant where he once found and abandoned love. Read More

  • Jul 1, 2025

    The Last Goodbye

    Jamie hides from his ghosts on the island of Moorea. But when his ex-fiancée Alison arrives ahead of a tropical storm, he must decide where his heart belongs before the storm and his past consume him. Read More

  • Jun 22, 2025

    Second Chances

    Nathan embarks on a world cruise, hoping to win back an old flame. Instead the tide pulls him toward Holly, a fellow traveler adrift in her own grief. Yet his obsession with rewriting the past threatens to sink their fragile present. Can Nathan let go of old dreams before Holly too floats from his grasp? Read More

  • Jun 21, 2025

    True Paradises

    Two novellas of how we find and lose our paradises—a diptych of love and loss. Read More

  • Jun 1, 2025

    Walking on Glaciers (Reprise)

    A woman concludes that her journey is coming to an end, but decides to keep going. Read More

  • May 26, 2025

    Walking on Glaciers

    Finding a companion while watching glaciers melt. Read More

  • May 4, 2025

    The Overlook

    On a solo hike, a mother misses her trekking companion – a child now grown. By trail’s end she embraces her fate. Read More

  • Apr 24, 2025

    The Wall

    Laozi meets Confucius and the Buddha in West Texas. Read More

  • Apr 17, 2025

    Venice

    A locked room mystery from La Serenissima – the city most serene. Set to a backdrop of the opera Carmen. Read More

  • Apr 7, 2025

    The Painted Porch

    Four stoic philosophers from across the ages come together to discuss love in a Wyoming café. Read More

  • Apr 2, 2025

    Longs Peak

    Letting go of guilt on the side of a mountain. Read More

  • Mar 8, 2025

    The Lighthouse

    A man tries to experience the world with new eyes. Yet there is so much he still doesn’t see. Read More

  • Feb 13, 2025

    Bryce Canyon

    A man roams a ravine trying to escape his ghosts. Read More

  • Feb 11, 2025

    Grinnell Glacier

    Sharing a story of love interrupted – as told to a park ranger. Read More

  • Jan 27, 2025

    The Signs of Sion

    A woman returns to scenes of her triumph and tragedy in Sion, Switzerland. Read More

  • Jan 25, 2025

    Rialto Beach: A Study in Zen (Coda)

    無 and the nature of Zen. Read More

  • Jan 23, 2025

    Rialto Beach: A Study in Zen (Reprise)

    What is Zen? Interpretations of the kōans. Read More

  • Jan 21, 2025

    Rialto Beach: A Study in Zen – Exploring Kōans Through Poetry

    Zen meditations reimagined as haiku. Read More

  • Jan 1, 2025

    Cagliari

    A signora sitting at a Sardinian bar remembers her greatest regret. Read More

  • Dec 6, 2024

    Encounter in Paris

    Two strangers decide to fall in love one night. A short story from la ville lumière. Read More

  • Dec 4, 2024

    Orient Beach

    A girl lays on a Saint Martin beach contemplating relationship choices. Read More

  • Dec 4, 2024

    The Matterhorn

    Embracing and letting go of a memory while hiking on the Matterhorn. Read More

  • Dec 4, 2024

    The Bernina Express

    Boy meets girl, boy loses girl. And maybe he is ok with it. A short story from Switzerland’s UNESCO scenic railway. Read More

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