Mark Knego

Mark Knego is a playwright, stage director, sculptor and short story writer from San Francisco, California. He holds a B.A. degree in Dramatic Art from the University of California. "Snakes of Kampuchea," a theatrical trilogy about the Cambodian refugee experience which he wrote and directed for the stage, was published in print by Exit Press. He has had stories published in The Write Launch, Anak Sastra and Ginosko Literary Journal. All his work is based on real people and experiences he has met while traveling the globe.

The Gift of the Angel

I step out of the doorway of my building onto the morning street under the grey ash-toned sky.
A woman is jogging down the sidewalk, her feet leaving footprints in the ash film which covers everything. A man who I see so often on my street (yet whose name I do not know) waves to me and enters a darkened car. Then he silently goes on his phone, while sitting in the driver’s seat.

The Story of a Girl Who Lives in the City That Sparkles

Waves of people swarm the sidewalks like the waves in the nearby ocean, and it is always hot. Shoppers, families, delivery boys, phone addicts, lost souls, tourists, girls of the night clearly in their early mornings and more. They all look the same…

The Pointillist Strain, A Requiem

Two women walk in tandem down a cobblestoned street, one of many radiating like the veins of an emerald-green tree leaf from the metro down through the park towards a museum. The park is lined by elegant two-story mansions with beautiful balconies.
Children mount small horses inside the park in a corral of sorts, their moms adjust their helmets, while Daddy snaps pictures.
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