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Is it the one thing we can rely on? Even combat boots get holes, nail polish dries up to a useless clump of glittery flakes, and gum loses its flavor and gets all mushy. And hope certainly is like the … Continue reading →

Stars An ocean A story A joke Something lame, but you have to mean it Something special, not-so-cheesy Memories no one else has Is it to express love or induce it?

one amongst a many thousand others: reading other people’s books’ titles: there’s the slightly overweight thirtyish woman, buying “the new atkins diet”- cause it worked out so swell for him. there’s the random older guy, weirdly buying “kinderkacke”- children’s shit, … Continue reading →

nor happiness. so many emotions, so much longing, so much searching for things to forgive, so much looking for a purpose to feel. when you could just enjoy the quiet, embrace it. feel the sweat trickling down the small of … Continue reading →

i’m the anthropology student who dyes her hair blonde because it’s more rad than dreads, i’m the law student with a cute lip piercing who is smartly ridiculed by her boss for her interest in human and indigenous rights despite … Continue reading →

except maybe having someone else sneeze on your hand. or listening to a radio show about asylum seekers seeking asylum in austria. and hearing a chechen man talk about how he was tortured, why he was tortured, and especially how … Continue reading →

I’m from a place where on warm summer nights, when you sit on the front porch either because you can’t fall asleep or it’s the only time of the day where you get to be alone (never mind the cat(s) … Continue reading →

first, applying of bad gal (waterproof!), chopper, smog, and grifter, with a spritz of pink sugar. then, munching of organic corn chips, first-timer, chips that make me feel neither guilty nor dirty, def a keeper. same time, drinking of country … Continue reading →

about 4 years after i had my intensive stay in france, i decided it was time to go back. now here’s what i learned:  * the librairie privat, at place belcourt, is a great book store. what intrigued me most … Continue reading →