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That Halloween, I asked my friends to come over.
Oct 26 • 
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There! is! no! connection! without! vulnerability!
i say through gritted teeth
Dec 14, 2024 • 
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I quit loving with difficulty
In my freshman year of college, our class was required to participate in a university-wide cheerdance competition as part of a school tradition.
Mar 1 • 
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When I'm sad, I turn to Physics
Oct 3, 2024 • nam
Matty Healy vs. the Taylor Swift Universe
Jul 5 • nam
Goodbye, girlhood
Nov 30, 2024 • nam
Wintering
Dec 7, 2024 • nam
To believe in us, despite despite despite
Nov 8, 2024 • nam
Lupe
Apr 12 • nam

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Spare room
That Halloween, I asked my friends to come over.
Oct 26 • 
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Lupe
When Lupe was in her teens, her father took her up a mountain in Sorsogon, carrying only a few belongings.
Apr 12 • 
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On belonging
A few years ago, I was living in the city, in an apartment on the fifth floor.
Mar 30 • 
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I quit loving with difficulty
In my freshman year of college, our class was required to participate in a university-wide cheerdance competition as part of a school tradition.
Mar 1 • 
nam
Last NYE, I wished for a boring year
on self-exile and being brought back to life
Dec 28, 2024 • 
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journal

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There’s a lot happening in the Philippines right now.
Sep 21 • 
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In the mist
a slice of August
Sep 6 • 
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Catchers in the rye
on friendship / july journal entry
Aug 3 • 
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June firsts
journal entry #3
Jun 7 • 
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prose

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Stability as a destabilizing force
or what being 31 sometimes feels like
Jun 21 • 
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Citrus
this one's about love too, yes
Jun 14 • 
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To the girl from the tropics yearning for spring
It’s April again, and your algorithm is filled with the poetry of spring.
Apr 26 • 
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The desire to be loved
in which I have a one-sided drunken convo with Margaret Atwood
Feb 8 • 
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Past the lines
With coffee and crepes under the orange café light, they’re convincing me why exes can’t be friends, as if I’m the spokesperson for the opposition…
Jan 25 • 
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opinion

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The women of Frankenstein
in the text and beyond
Oct 12 • 
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Taylor Swift is done trying to please us
and you know what, good for her
Oct 5 • 
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Matty Healy vs. the Taylor Swift Universe
thoughts after the 1975's Glastonbury performance
Jul 5 • 
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Hello... is anyone there?
just another essay on AI art
Jun 14 • 
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