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Essays, memoir, and poetry on attention, grief, belonging, and what it means to live awake.

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Poetry2 min readOctober 24, 2025

Dating Profiles

Not Real People

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Memoir7 min readDevelopmental Order · 2October 22, 2025

The Frozen Scream

Developmental Order - Part 2

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Collection2 min readOctober 12, 2025

Autobiographical Pieces

Chapter 1 - An Ocean of Pain

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Collection4 min readOctober 10, 2025

Poems

Chapter 1 - An Ocean of Pain

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Poetry2 min readDevelopmental Order · 1October 1, 2025

A Pariddle of Feral

Developmental Order (part 1)

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Memoir3 min readShaping Water · 2September 29, 2025

Murder of Innocence

Shaping Water (part 2)

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Poetry2 min readSeptember 17, 2025

Father to Son

Initiation

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Memoir5 min readSeptember 16, 2025

Taming the Dragon

Living with borderline personality disorder

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Poetry1 min readSeptember 13, 2025

Yesterday Grief, Today Mischief

Gratitude for the extremes

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Memoir6 min readAugust 11, 2025

The Eye of the Mountain

Discovering My Personal Myth

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Memoir7 min readShock Collar · 1August 11, 2025

The Blackness of Darkness

Shock collar

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Memoir3 min readAugust 11, 2025

Deconditioning Everything I Was

Originally an anonymous Reddit post

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