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First Draft Letters

Tracy D

ramblings, musings, mementos - uninhibited

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making peace with exposure

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I've always been terrified of reading “Just Kids” 
81 pages in, face pink, eyes puffy 
snot running down my...
2 months ago
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to have stayed too long at the Fair

“In the end we still have to die into the grief a little bit longer, which to me looks a lot like love”.

I read this line from a stranger’s very last sentence of their comment on a Substack essay during a night of scrolling for anything th...

7 months ago
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Uninhibited tactility, the bliss in swirls, messy integration

Hannah Villiger “Block” (1997/1998)

It’s December. I have 20 tabs open on my laptop and more in my brain. I have a screenplay and a photography project I’ve been working on for the past 18 months. I am still metabolizing the feelings in wh...

10 months ago
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A poem on destructive desire, divine intervention, and salvation

A year ago around this time I wrote a stream of lines to make sense of a state I was in that was so broken and distraught it felt almost holy and sanctifying. I am reminded of it this week while watching Rosalia’s music video for her new si...

a year ago
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Mildly Unstable, Deeply Sincere

Hi I’m Tracy. So it looks like I’ve caved into the Substack scene after pondering on the idea for years. I’ve put it off for too long not only because I think that “everyone has one”, but it’s just been one of those things that “I’ll get to...

2 years ago
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