Away from the specter of communism, I was born only five years after my parents arrived in America from Vietnam. Despite their inexperience in America, the last thing my parents wanted for their children was a life filled with fear and hardship. Having only a primary school education, my mother was determined to provide her children with a proper education. My parents made it clear early on that everything they did was for us: it wasn’t to make them...

Click. That’s all it takes to travel to an alternate dimension. Rays of death shoot out of a box, rotting and tainting the minds of those who dare venture into the treacherous shows that lie within specific time slots on specific channels. As horrible as television is for my physical body, each show bombards me with lessons, stories, and new worlds to delve into. Television is not my life; it is my lives. I live vicariously through the Upper...