Expatriate Stories

An expatriate muses on his decades in Brazil as he waits for professionals to clean up a special mess for him. Originally produced as part of the Boundoff literary podcast, 2008.

Celia Belmonte, a 16-year-old from Barcelona finds herself in a small-town Virginia highschool. Between struggling with her feelings of the move and navigating American life, she finds herself in a corner of her precalculus class scribbling on the desk, communicating with a stranger between classes. As Celia starts to establish a new life, she is torn between her feelings for her new friend and the writing of the stranger in math class.

Takia Kirana Malik, gadis 29tahun bekerja di hospitality industry. Dikejar target menikah. Bayangan masa lalu akan kandasnya kisah cintanya, membuat Takia terombang ambing dalam ketakutannya sendiri. Lukesh Sastrowardoyo-Cook, pria blasteran Inggris- Surabaya. Bekerja Di hospitality industry dan memegang kedudukan sebagai Director of Sales and Marketing di salah satu Luxury Hotel di Inggris. Memutuskan menerima mutasi ke Thailand demi menjauh sementara waktu dari kedua orang tuanya yang selalu menuntutnya cepat nikah. #### Akankah (TAK)ia dan (LUK)esh berjodoh? Mampukah Takia berdamai dengan kegagalan masa lalunya? Kuuuy.....check it out yeees. Terima kasih sudah menyempatkan untuk membaca kisah ini ya, guys 🙏🙏🙏.

A collection of poems by an Australian living away from his home country. It touches on my feelings after being away from my home country for many years

The title of my book, "Follow in the Tigerman's Footsteps," sub- titled "The Adventurous Life of an Expat," comes from my love of tigers that like me love to roam far and wide. It reads more like an adventure story than a memoir and covers a working life most only dream about. I started to write my memoir, as a way of showing my two daughters and grand children what kind of life I enjoyed. However, the more I wrote; I decided it would make an interesting read for others. As a qualified joiner/shopfitter, I worked on fitting out shops, banks and offices all over England, as well as a few projects in Scotland. As a Sagittarian I have travel in my blood, but never in my wildest dreams did I think I would end up experiencing travel and working in so many different countries. Readers will see that there is more to life than a boring 9-5 job, with the whole world waiting for you to experience life in a country other than your own.

Meet Vijay, your regular sort of quiet guy, who left home after school and stepped across the ocean to do his undergrad in Singapore. After three years of being just him, he met Deepa, and suddenly he was one part of Vipa or Deejay. He preferred Deejay, but most people just called him Vijay. Deepa, strong, confident, and totally focussed, is enchanted by having a senior for a boyfriend. Less drama, she felt, and lot more information to get ahead during college. At the end of four years of peace, romance and friendship, they were ready to be married. How do they manage the new environment of being married to each other's families? How do they transition from being footloose and fancy free to being responsible for each other? Do they grow together or do they find arguments where none existed before?

This is an article written by an American expat living in Marrakech, Morocco

With peculiar strengths from birth, Alex Mars observed his world with scrutiny. He, as a 'Prodigy', thought the world accepted him-but unfortunately, that wasn't the thing in his life. After struggles and torments in his mind, he is finally expelled out of the country, once and for all. He thought he would die-but instead, starts a chain of events which would change his life and world-and, space, to be specific, completely. (Wattys 2020)

......She was a Muslim woman and he was a Hindu man. She had been working at the place for ten years with no one actually suspecting anything about her Identity. Then a casual question from a colleague triggers nervousness, confusions and tensions....Will Meera be able to overcome her changed situation? Or Will she give in?

Entered the Public Domain in 2022! The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his sparse but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

A humorous novel of what happens when a Hollywood television writer goes to Budapest to revive his career and finds that backstabbing is as prevalent as in Tinsel Town.