Category: creative nonfiction
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highlights from your local grocery store (2021)
A Version of a More Accurate Job Posting: Job Description: Mind-numbing. Soul-destroying. Mentally excruciating. You don’t really care, though. You’re just looking for something to hire you because you’re too young for skilled labor. You need money. We agree to give you some. You thought this place might be nice…
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waterfall (2021)
I think I’m a hopeless romantic. Not hopeless in the sense of hope (for me) is lacking. Not hopeless like consuming sighs, plucking rose petals that shrivel as they float to the ground, cutting out pictures of vintage wedding dresses and drawing squiggly white lines of glue onto a scrapbook…
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wedding planning (2021)
A girl at work married her boyfriend recently. Recently as in I came in one day and she wasn’t engaged, and then two days later she had a ring on her finger and a video of them taking their vows at the town hall, face masks pulled down to their…
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tell me about it, stud (2021)
Before my dad and stepmom got divorced, I had a dream about it. Trying to place it is like trying to find the right word for a language you don’t know. I can see a car, flying down the road, but not on the road, drifting through the sky like…
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character arc (2021)
Sabari the hermit intertwines with the birds. Her arm seems to go through the branches, or maybe it’s posed in front, blocking a perfect view of their resting place. She poses like a model, her right arm in her pocket and her left at a right angle, her back arching…
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