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poetry

poems to get you through a harsh winter

comfort for twitchy people

Dec 12, 2025 • ZLL

They Loved You Here

Dec 5, 2025 • ZLL

Notes on Creation/Notes on Destruction

Dec 1, 2025 • ZLL

Aug 11, 2025 • ZLL

summer as two sides of the same coin

Zora hates summer.

Aug 6, 2025 • ZLL and ella jade

essays

Premature End of the Year Report

Dec 19, 2025 • ZLL

going back to a place of madness

you take the girl out of the city not the city out the girl

Nov 24, 2025 • ZLL

let the kids have utopia

Nov 19, 2025 • ZLL

unremarkable pain

Aug 25, 2025 • ZLL

in the game on my phone, i’m married to a man who says that all our days will be like this

Notes on compulsive heterosexuality and lesbian loneliness (& joy)

Jul 24, 2025 • ZLL

fiction

The Hospital Room

an absurdist horror(-ish) coming of age story based on a weird dream I had

Jul 10, 2025 • ZLL

Dredging Up The Past

a piece of auto-fiction

Nov 17, 2024 • ZLL

film & tv

Our Favourite Quotes From Film & TV

with Amanda from Certified.

Jan 13, 2025 • ZLL and AMANDA

"Crashing’s" Lulu is the patron saint of little girls who tell the truth

OR to little girls who tell the truth

Oct 24, 2024 • ZLL

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