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Pregnant Now
I’m pregnant now.
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High Flight
Content warning: this text contains descriptions of dying.
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Bitter Hay
I disappeared for a bit.
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Jelly Guts
When the pandemic first started, and we were asked to stay home, some people ran into the ring of the suffering Olympics and held up their tiny internet…
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Calcium
You are lost.
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Swimming For Your Life
There are times when terrible, cataclysmic things happen, and you grip the walls, demanding an answer on how the walls could look on and not intervene…
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Siamese Coils
I’ve recently gotten myself into the voluntary loop of listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter.
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Gisela
I wrote this piece in October 2019: before the pandemic, before my mother died, and one year after my grandmother’s death.
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Spring Grief
Oh it’s HEAVEN out right now!
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Could it happen here?
My brother got a Dampfmaschine (German for a steam engine) as a gift when he was a kid.
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Rat Track
I hate that sound, I said. About the train horn in the distance, at night. We used to hear that sound in Edmonton, my dad said. Lying in bed. At ten…
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Butterfly Ghosts
This is it. It’s the beginning. This is how it starts. And yet here you are in the middle of it, just stopped, holding your things: all the things you…
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