7.2.2024
the sky is cloudy the day i lose color
5.14.2024
small value disconsider
SSW | Alice Snapshot III
Alice learns many things in her five years at Highborne Academy. She learns how to balance accounts and write a letter, how to barricade her door at night and move without people noticing. She learns sums and history, how to take pain without showing it, and the true meaning of silence. She learns to ignore […]
5.7.2024 IIII
hide in the clouds, dear
5.7.2024 III
maladaptive daydreaming
5.7.2024 II
the bear finds me
5.7.2024
tired little lamb
SSW | Alice’s Adventures in Assassinland
Alice finds the appeal of fight pits baffling. Displaying yourself, your fighting style and strategies, to a crowd of strangers when it’s not necessary to survival – well. It’s an interesting choice, especially in a city like this. She dutifully places Zazzy’s bet for him and takes Merla’s bags, watches Oriros split from the fighters […]
4//21 | Please don’t vacation
I’m away next week, so I’ll see you the following Friday, my therapist says. Even the moon can see the fake of my smile and I hope my phone camera pixels add their own sincerity as I nod and say okay. I question my progress, my growth, that I am afraid of a week on […]
4//19 | Yearly contemplations
Every year, on each holiday, each birthday, I find myself searching, reaching, scrabbling for even an ounce of the fun and excitement they held as a child. And every year I’m left with sinking disappointment, tired resignation. The magic is gone, and I don’t know how to get it back. This is a concentrated example, […]