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New Home, Same Awful Attitude

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Not long after they leave, Will arrives. He is here to build my bed for me. I greet him with red eyes and a tired smile, he knows I’ve been crying. It’s just the two of us, surrounded by boxes and a hopeful future. We head into my bedroom where I show him the box of the bed frame. I bring the floor cushion into the room to watch as he starts unpacking. He tells me he has done this twice before, so my expectations are big. It took us four hours. Four fucking hours to build the frame. It
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Murakami Clothes

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My wardrobes are facsimiles of you carrying with them the unprinted text, invisible ink lying about where it was from what it was: pieces of cotton and linen that lies there dormant  in the wooden frame, whispering what have I done, will you wear me again, and smile?   It’s that stupid Murakami shirt The one that murmurs: ‘Don’t let appearances fool you’ mirrored and unreadable, a mirage like black and white swirls to fall in and lost. Somewhere, a crumpled shirt for the optical op-shop bin, creeping around silent as a fractured thought, the everything from nothing that whispers
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Anchored

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You walk along the campsite’s edges, sprawling onto Mason Smith’s Road like overgrown grass. Gravel flicks back up against your
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2024: A New Year, Absurdity, and Chaos

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Content Warning: Alcohol Consumption, Existential Themes, Mentions of Pressure and Anxiety New Year's Eve tends to be this poorly thrown-together affair, a letdown of a celebration that's basically an excuse to drink, coupled with the added stress of making it some kind of extraordinary night, setting us up for inevitable self-sabotage. A lukewarm evening culminating in a brutal hangover the next day. Now, imagine my surprise when my Dad questioned why I hadn't sent him a New Year's text or made a celebratory call. Coming from Europe, where the academic and professional calendar starts in September and ends in July;
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