Category: childhood
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Letters to Dad
Ever since he can remember, his dad has been his best friend. A fact he wasn’t very comfortable with until he grew up. His friends always found reasons to stay away from their fathers, and he did the exact opposite. He couldn’t get enough of him. When he moved to Japan for a few months in…
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My brother and I played with dolls well into our teens. We weren’t particularly proud of that. In fact, we played in secret. Summer afternoons were long, and we spent a major part of the day spinning intricate stories of love, revenge, mystery, and crimes. There were talking dogs and flying forests. There was music,…
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Nowhere
At Nowhere Station, the Animal Express chugged to a lazy halt. While the horses departed with long faces, the giraffes were relieved they could finally stop sticking their necks out. The hens were clucking their way out the door when suddenly, a baby chicken cried out. “Mom, I think I’ve got people pox!” Panic ensued…
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Haunted: A Poem
It’s not the meaninglessness that haunts me. It’s the emptiness. It’s the hours and hours of mindless, seamless, boundless searching, worrying, scratching, weeping, struggling. It’s watching the sun go down every day, It’s watching the seasons change the trees, Watching buildings rise and then wither away, Watching people I love slowly decay, Knowing the planet…
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So Now What
Wow, 2017 already feels so old. Seems like yesterday when we were all happily making silent resolutions and sighing and convincing ourselves that nothing can be as bad as the year 2016. Well. A while ago a fresh bout of anxiety struck me. See, the thing with anxiety is, the more you try to ignore…
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