Blossoms
CW: Child sexual abuse The pyjamas were pink satin, with a cherry blossom print. The shirt was fastened with Chinese button knots;…
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A nightmare I have is that I end up where I started
CW: references to suicide, alcohol abuse For twenty-five years I lived without having an answer to ‘What is your biggest fear?’, but yesterday…
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Circuitry: A Day Of
My forehead presses against the car window and the backs of my eyelids are reddish yellow against the sunlight. Next to me, Bug protests…
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Family Road Trips: The Perfect Place To Bond
CW: This piece contains depictions of domestic violence When I was ten, my family loaded up our Datsun 200B station wagon with our…
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Apply the undiluted oil as a mild soothing balm
Notes: The music that plays in the background is artist James Leyland Kirby under the name Caretaker with the album An Empty Bliss…
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Consumption ritual
Content warning: this piece contains references to graphic self-harm. At seventeen, I slipped from existence. What I mean to say; I…
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MAI’S SUPER SWEET 16: AUGUST
This column is an ongoing experimental diary series exploring the life of a fictional teen Vietnamese girl, Mai. 3 August 2005 I’ve been thinking a…
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Lesbians end everything
on my way into my body my mother told me emphasis punctuated with serious finger pointing you are the dark heel of the family,…
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Brother
I feel most alive when I am driving at night with my brother and he is playing good music and my window is wound…
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