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253: Searching for Gold
He needs new glasses, he thinks, as he squints across the room to see the line-up of jars and bottles labelled with curly ink. How long...
May 28, 20211 min read
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252: The Old Part of Town
Walking down alleys into the old part of town, I tense. Each step sends a jolt up my spine, shaking loose thoughts and memories I would...
May 26, 20211 min read
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251: Rose-Tinted Clichés
And so we're here. Now what? I look at you. You're smiling. Now what? I ask again. We'll figure it out, you say. That's scary. You laugh....
May 24, 20211 min read
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250: Perfectionism ...
... is rewriting a text until it's grammatically and syntactically correct (and stiff like new leather shoes). ... is pulling an...
May 21, 20211 min read
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249: Surrealistic Humanoids
Surrealist art fascinates me. I come across an unnamed and unattributed work of art that looks like it has been made digitally. A...
May 19, 20211 min read
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248: Curious Acrobat
The difference between loving the craft and loving the muse is a fine spider-spun line of cobweb between gnarly birches in a shielded...
May 17, 20211 min read
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247: When Narcissus Lost His Mirror
Reeds whisper around his legs as he sheds his clothes and steps into the water, cold, unmoving. The clouds hang low tonight. He sees no...
May 14, 20211 min read
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246: A Morning With Eve
She looks for herself in the patchwork of his face as she leans over him. He sleeps. She fits herself into the lines, his jaw, his nose,...
May 12, 20211 min read
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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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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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