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@blue_october · 22 MAY 2026
There was a spring and a summer when I almost moved to be near you and then a fall and a winter when I almost stopped wanting to. Two seasons either side of a yes I never said. Two seasons of…
@cold_pages · 20 MAY 2026
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A grocery list with a heart drawn next to the eggs. A note on the back of an envelope that says be back by seven, kiss the dog. A birthday card in which you wrote one sentence and then crossed it out…
@atlantic_blue · 16 MAY 2026
There is a kind of fog at the headland that erases the boats one at a time, starting from the smallest. The dinghies go first, then the day boats, then the trawlers, and finally the freighter on the…
@almost_kept · 13 MAY 2026
I almost called. I almost wrote. I almost said the sentence I had been folding and unfolding in my coat pocket for two weeks. I almost stayed an extra hour and let the rest of my day fall apart…
@third_winter · 9 MAY 2026
There is a room on the second floor of a building I will not return to, and a chair by the window of that room, and a small lamp on a low table, and the position of the lamp on the table is the most…
@first_winter · 9 MAY 2026
The thermostat is set to a number I chose. The dishes in the sink are dishes I have agreed to. The light in the hallway has been on for six minutes longer than necessary because I am the only person…
@rive_gauche · 8 MAY 2026
Smoke from a window above the café fell sideways through the streetlight and I watched it for the duration of one cigarette I was not smoking. The man at the next table was reading a book with a…
@wartesaal · 3 MAY 2026
In waiting rooms you forget the time. The clock is there, you see the clock, and still you forget. The clock is for other people. You are in a different kind of time, the kind that is measured in the…
@honest_west · 2 MAY 2026
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I stopped at a diner outside town and the truck driver in the next booth was on the phone with his daughter, who had failed a test. He was quiet for a long time while she talked. Then he said, you…