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Before You Melt Into the Sea: 3/5

Melancholy Nights in a Tokyo Virtual Cafe: 1/5

The Used-To-Be Party: 3/5

A Gallery A Century, A Cry A Millennium: 5/5⭐️🌎🚀

Life Around the Event Horizon: 3/5

Songs of your Decay: 5/5 ☹️☹️☹️

Speak, Fetch, Say I Love You: 3/5

Elegy Hotel: 2/5

Pig Son: 4.5/5 ☹️🥺😩

Through the Garden of Memory: 3/5

City of Laughter: 5/5 😭😭😭

30,000 Years Beneath A Eulogy: 5/5

what a beautiful and sad story; I’m intrigued

Loving the writing so far

Tomorrow: 3.75/5

Peking Duck: 4/5

Office Hours: 3.75/5

Returning: 4/5

Yeti Lovemaking: 2.5/5

G: 4/5
“It doesn’t take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone’s gaze. It’s not totally accurate to say that I get seen. It was more that: Beheld by her, I learned how to become myself. Her interest actualized me.”

Oranges: 3.5/5

“Even though my hashtag-ridden posts became increasingly dogmatic and political, it didn’t make what I was saying any less true. I thought of it as ‘owning’ my narrative. But as soon as I began ‘owning’ it publicly, my identity became flattened into this fixed thing. Being a victim was all anyone associated with me; I became a waste bin of unsolicited sympathy.”

Los Angeles: 2/5

“Everything I needed was already there: clothes, toiletries, a washing machine. Real plumbing. Cotton sheets. My garden. How easy it would be to pick up the thread of this place, to continue a rhythm that still haunted my bones.”

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“He’s not doing well with this sleep deprivation. There’s a reason why it’s used as a tool of torture. But still, everyone I know is trying to sleep less. Insomnia as a badge of honor. Proof that you are paying attention.”

LOVING this so far, i just wish i had time to read!!

“Q: What is the philosophy of late capitalism? A: Two hikers see a hungry bear on the trail ahead of them. One of them takes out his running shoes and puts them on. ‘You can’t outrun a bear,’ the other whispers. ‘I just have to outrun you,’ he says.”