I teeter at the precipice stuck between worlds I ponder: to stay or to go? A companion to Unhomed, the other chapbook in the LIVEpress series, Crossing Universes begins with Theophilus Kwek’s “On Roads and Rituals”, a reflection on why we travel and what it means to be able to travel. The short stories and poems that follow continue to traverse literal and figurative universes, exploring a myriad of ideas and issues along the way: faith, depression, perception, birth, coming-of-age, and death. Alfonse Chiu’s short but quietly stunning “Hanami Post-Earthquake” draws the reader’s voyage to a close on an ethereal, pensive tone.