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A place where I put things that have nowhere else to go. Sometimes to remember, other times to forget and let go.
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Jobs, and levels of misery (opens the original)
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To London, the City that Didn’t Want Me (opens the original)
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Just my Attempt at Expressing Something Nice (opens the original)
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About a Giant Hole In the Ground And the Passage of Time (opens the original)
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I was welcomed by the sounds of drilling, hammering, digging, and excavating. The patching of a giant hole in the ground was in full swing when I arrived at my temporary summer home.As the earth gave way, a huge part of the street just collapsed, with no warning. It was early June when I arrived with my two big suitcases, sweating as I carried them down the torn-up street, as it was impossible to drag them over the rocky terrain.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substack
On Writing as Cheating, and Crying in Public (opens the original)
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I’m spending my summer isolated in a friend’s apartment in the hills of Rijeka, a city where I don’t know a soul. I’m watching three very cute cats, so my day usually starts and ends with cleaning cat shit. I rarely leave.To force myself out of the apartment, I tried finding things that interest me. I went to the open-air cinema a few times, I discovered a nice Asian restaurant, and from time to time I go to the beach.One day, I found a literary event at the public library – a writing club’s clo
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