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strands (opens the original)
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god, i’m a moron aren’t I? (opens the original)
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god I’m a moron aren’t I?throats ragged like roughly ripped paper croaking like spluttering enginesheavy doors.skin blistering like screams -cracking as the cards we threw downonce Did.snapping like bra strapsretreating beneath theengravings of Your fingerssinging rosilybeneathThatOppressiveSun.thin cotton shimmying up your torsonervous footstepsagainst the viscous air. <a class="button primary" href="https://thefreeexplor
post it note diary (opens the original)
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I found a collection of post-it notes I wrote when I was 8. I’ve mostly left them as I found them; amongst the chaotic handwriting, they revealed something about how I saw the world.<img alt="Story Pin image" class="sizing-normal" height="896" src="htt
the swarm (opens the original)
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