Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

How To Bring Dishonor to Your Family

Daniel Naman is a writer living in New York City. His work appears in and is forthcoming from Eunoia Review and The Piker Press. You can see what he's up to via Instagram @danbo88.

How To Bring Dishonor To Your Family

Dream big. Write down your intentions and tape them to a wall. Look at them everyday. Memorize them. Repeat them to anyone who asks, listens, or cares. Even if they don't care. Do your own thing/go your own path-everything else is either boring or trivial. Wish. Succeed. Fail. Try. Don't live like your parents/grandparents/great-grandparents. Risk. Jump in the air. Feel your feet lift off the ground and allow yourself to float gently upwards and into the clouds. Remember to graze them with your hands. Feel how soft they are against your skin. See the world below and remember how it used to be. How it was before you changed. Before you took off. How embarrassing, your relatives would say. He couldn't even win a fight with gravity.






Article © Daniel Naman. All rights reserved.
Published in the January 7, 2019 issue .
Image(s) © Sand Pilarski. All rights reserved.
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