Stories
Follow along for some unhinged ranting about writing, life-ing, and things that I am reading or hyper focusing on at the moment. Could be a book series or Orcas, your guess is as good as mine.
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How to Build Your Community (Even if You’re Exhausted)
Community isn’t something that just appears out of nowhere. It’s something you practice. It doesn’t arrive fully formed, and it doesn’t require charisma (and if you’re too charming, everyone will just think you’re a seriel killer anyway), endless free time, or hosting elaborate dinner parties. Most of the time, it’s built through small, (slightly inconvenient)…
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To Be A Village
“That sounds like a TV show,” people often say when I describe the street I live on. Aesthetically, there’s nothing remarkable about it. The houses are pretty, modest, and brick; the sidewalks are lined with trees that shed leaves and toxic horse chestnuts in the fall, and fill the air with pollen in the spring.…
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Divorce: In The Middle Of Love And Pain
Divorce is brutal. It has a way of stripping you down to your sharpest edges. The pain alone can tempt you to become someone you don’t recognize—to sink into the heat of anger, to let vitriol be the only language you speak. Some days, it would feel so good to hand myself over to the…
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What Happens When You Use AI to Process Your Own Heartbreak?
It was 11 p.m. on a Thursday, and I couldn’t sleep again. The house was silent, save for the soft clicking of dog claws on hardwood. Sprawled across my green velvet couch, I stared at a blank patch on the wall while tears slipped down into my hairline. What the hell just happened? I struggled…
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I Got Married, Then Divorced—And Finally Chose Myself
I didn’t spend playtime as a little girl fantasizing about my wedding. There were too many creatures to catch, adventures to be had, weird side hustles to scheme, and books to read. I was a precocious, ambitious, weird loner kid with a fast brain, poor impulse control, and self-assurance that teetered on pathological. When I…
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