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245: Sleep on it (Don't)
I startle awake and wonder how manmade annihilation would have looked a century or two ago. A living inferno, perhaps, or something from...
May 10, 20211 min read
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244: Isolated
We wait. For a while, that is all we have. Suspension. In-between. Nothing happens. We wait. Written by: Katrine Hjulstad Instagram:...
May 7, 20211 min read
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243: Let Us Take Our Time
We do everything quickly. We walk quickly, eat quickly, talk quickly, type quickly, fall asleep and wake up quickly. What happened to...
May 5, 20211 min read
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242: An Ode to Philia
It's when she buys you a drink Because she knows you'll stay home otherwise It's that memory of walking home Along the riverside Thinking...
May 3, 20211 min read
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241: We Meet Again in Rome
Coming. Arriving. Ending. Beginning. I come. I seize your hand. "I'm here." For a minute, half an hour. Pressed against your palm. In...
Apr 30, 20211 min read
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240: A Green Battle Hymn
Each shelf is filled with dreams winged by human hopes and desires. We gave stallions wings and called them pegasi. We gave men wings and...
Apr 28, 20211 min read
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239: Having Read Brian Dillon
I like a good list. One that winds. Turns. Comes back around. Ends where it starts. Only to say that it doesn't end. It leaps. One room...
Apr 26, 20211 min read
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238: The Ark Won't Save Us Twice
All the roads are drowned. We are forced to swim. Overnight, the seas have risen. Those who didn't swim have drowned. Those who have no...
Apr 23, 20211 min read
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237: We Hide Our Hurts in Bathrooms
I have a distinct memory of teenage years, of being twelve or thirteen, crying in a bathroom stall at school. Somebody had hidden all my...
Apr 21, 20211 min read
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236: I Beg Your Time
You laugh, and I give chase, a spider weaving fragile nets of silver for your voice to pearl like precious dew. I admire them, these...
Apr 19, 20211 min read
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235: Written
I am a complication of his laughter and favourite drink, and the snow he scooped into my hood while I wasn't looking; of her voice and...
Apr 16, 20211 min read
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234: The Better Person
The best thing we can do is to know ourselves. To know where our fault lines run, to know where we crack and where our knowledge runs...
Apr 14, 20211 min read
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233: Searching for "Gods"
The trick to find GIFs in your app of choice is to shorten the sentiment down to a word it's a trick we learn when looking through...
Apr 12, 20212 min read
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232: Reality's Fragility
When I was little, we had glass tulips in a vase. Heavy, sturdy, spotted with bright colours. An exhibition piece. I never asked to hold...
Apr 9, 20211 min read
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231: Pen Run Wild
She happens after 2 AM. I have seen her. I have seen her look up and pull me in until I drown in blue that turns black that grows and...
Apr 7, 20211 min read
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230: Hermits
They say the people who like rain the best are those who suffer silently. He doesn't know if it is true. But he likes the rain. He likes...
Apr 5, 20211 min read
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229: The Things We Are Too Used To
Window panes Closed doors Shallow breaths Empty kitchens The faint outlines of letters on a keyboard Laptop screens Blue light The bubble...
Apr 2, 20211 min read
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228: Becoming
I uncurl. My toes touch the ground. The windows are open, inviting the cold night air inside. An ice cream van passes below. I stand. I...
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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227: Diary Entries From a Squared Room
24th March 2021 Tulips were delivered to my door today. I don't have a vase for them. I put them in an empty tomato sauce jar. 25th March...
Mar 29, 20211 min read
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226: 18/3/2021. 04:00am
The world never seems so big as it does at 4am Under a starry sky Or simply under fairy lights Scrolling back through old photos I really...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
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