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The memorial processors sat beneath Sector Three, low against the rock where heat couldn’t reach them fully.

Banks was already there when I arrived, one glove pressed against the pressure housing. Like he was listening to it breathe.

Nigh...

30 hours ago
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already, open

the water doesn’t ask
what this is

it carries

blue

widening
without needing a name

before you notice

your hands

already
open

what you held

not gone

just
moving

further than
you could follow

and softer

than you expected...

3 days ago
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orbital fading

she was the moon

light
resting differently
on skin

blue beneath her wrists
pulling tides
through the room

the call continued
long after work
finished pretending
to matter

voices faded

screens darkened

yet hers remained...

5 days ago
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neon salt

last night
someone’s headphones
leaking drums

fake gold reflections
sliding across
the bus windows

a single acid bassline pumping
in only two ears

synth lines singing
in time to the bell

some toes tapping
screwed up faces...

7 days ago
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Between Two Words - Ep 12 - Harold's Arrival Pt II

“They will have you arrested for abduction.”

For a moment, the word seemed absurd.

Abduction.

As though Emily were an object carried away in the night rather than a woman who had crossed half the world already by her own choosing.

Yet e...

8 days ago
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  • Mark Crutchfield

    I write pieces that sit with uncertainty rather than solve it — noticing how language, scale, and silence shape what we think we understand. If there’s a through-line, it’s attention, not explanation.

  • Be Budding

    ℕ\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd63\ud835\udd63\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd65\ud835\udd5a\ud835\udd67\ud835\udd56 \ud835\udd38\ud835\udd5d\ud835\udd54\ud835\udd59\ud835\udd56\ud835\udd5e\ud835\udd5a\ud835\udd64\ud835\udd65 ✨️ Poetry, fiction & reflective essays ✨️ Explore the journey from conditioning to authentici... more

  • Dorie Snow/雪多丽

    RN, CSULB Graduate Student, Asian Studies Chinese culture and philosophy. Confucianist, Author, Scholar. Life is better with love, a garden, a library. I have wild ideas that consume me, gentleness is my spirit, in childlike wonder. A hint of peony.

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