Ashes & Alchemy
Priya | The Pretend PoetI examine my life and worldview in public, and put language around things you may have felt but could not name.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 46 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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What If This Is Your Life?
, no one wants to accept that the life they’re living is “life.”
Life is something you only get once. If this miserable, pathetic, exhausting, demanding, difficult thing is it—then I feel like I got screwed. We like to keep believing that...
Who’s Seen The Real You?
Who has seen the real you—and stayed? And if the honest answer is no one, whose doing is that, really?
I’ve examined my life through three different lenses of belonging—the table I was born to, the rooms that shut me out, the price I paid...
Performing Costs You. So Does Refusing To.
, which price have you been paying—the cost to be chosen or the cost to stay whole?
Last week was about the wound of being shut out. This week we’re looking at what we do next. Because every time a door closes in your face, a fork appears...
The Loneliest Room is a Full One
, when were you most alone in a room full of people—and what did you decide, that day, about your own worth?
Last week we read the belonging you were born to. This week we read the belonging that was refused.
There are two kinds of alone...
The Belonging You Never Chose is Running Your Life
, what did you have to become to keep your place at the table you were born to?
Before you chose a single thing about your life—your friends, your city, your private nickname for yourself—you belonged to someone. A family. A house. A set o...
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I examine my own life in public so you feel less alone in yours. I write the ache of being human—personal and cultural, the things we edit out of polite conversation but think about in the dark. Literature is the mirror; I'll go first.
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