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How to Die Tastefully (and Other Lessons from a Persistent Cold)
Because if I’m going to spend another week trapped between consciousness and delirium while negotiating peace treaties with my own immune system, I…
Oct 28, 2025
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The Split Screen of Growing Up
Some of my friends are still living on instant coffee and 3 a.m. pasta, others are buying dishwashers and announcing pregnancies. Both timelines exist…
Sep 30, 2025
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I Shouldn’t Have Read Dostoevsky at Fourteen
A boarding-school winter, The Brothers Karamazov, and the age when books begin to take root in you.
Sep 6, 2025
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God Knows I Still Whisper
On love, silence, and the sacred echo that never quite returns, when reason dims, and the stars forget your name, speak anyway.
Aug 2, 2025
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Girls Own the Void
On distance, stillness, and the parts of us we never offered
Jul 18, 2025
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What’s the Point of a Diary If You’re Not Lying in It?
Feb 9, 2025
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The Pomegranate Plague of Gen Z Poets
Feb 22, 2025
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I Shouldn’t Have Read Dostoevsky at Fourteen
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Stop Flirting With Me Just Because I’m Breathing
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Cult Dairy
On obsession, ritual, and the quiet holiness of sour milk. A five-part gospel of kefir devotion from a girl who should probably eat something else for…
Jul 14, 2025
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I Miss the Bloody Tooth Hole
A brief history of how I mistook pain for progress and absence for spiritual depth—and was mostly right
Jun 28, 2025
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The Odyssey: Or, How to Lie So Well They Canonise It
On narrative gaslighting, Homeric chaos, and why Odysseus is the original master of mythic misdirection.
Jun 19, 2025
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How Themistocles Manifested a Naval Victory (and Then Got Cancelled)
Imagine carrying Athens on your back, only to get cancelled for being annoying about it.
May 17, 2025
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How I Made Loneliness Feel Like a Lifestyle Choice
What it means to live inside pauses, and why I still think solitude is sexier when no one notices it’s deliberate.
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Easter on a Boat and Marzipan for the Dog
A loyal dog, Easter brunch, and a sugar-fuelled six-year-old child psychologist I didn’t ask for. Melting bunnies, marzipan offerings, my loafers…
Apr 22, 2025
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Stop Flirting With Me Just Because I’m Breathing
On how everything a pretty girl does is seen as flirtation.
Apr 4, 2025
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A Travel Guide to Hell (based on Dante's Inferno)
A detailed guide to eternal suffering and the inevitable descent, complete with practical advice, historical cameos, and a linguistic crash course in…
Mar 28, 2025
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A City Girl’s Worst Nightmare
A late-night subway ride, a man who moved like his body wasn’t his, and a train that felt like it was holding me hostage. I can’t sleep, so I’m writing…
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