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Follow-Up

The human condition is largely composed of suffering. There are days when the pain is so quiet, so dull, that we often forget that it is there entirely. …

Fiction

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Follow-Up
Follow-Up
Fiction

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Dec 12, 2022

Grandpa’s Obituary

To Huu Nguyen has not lived an easy life. To was born in Hà Nam Ninh, amid revolutionary fervor on January 5th, 1934, in the northern region of what was then French Indochina. The third child in a family of six, he would bury his father before his 12th birthday…

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Grandpa’s Obituary
Grandpa’s Obituary

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May 16, 2022

Past and Prescence

In the bloom of sunshine I lay here dying. Purgatory is real, and it exists within the quiet between every end and each beginning. …

Fiction

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Past and Prescence
Past and Prescence
Fiction

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Jan 2, 2022

The Life and Death of a Man I Never Knew until Today

Obituaries were strange things to read. An entire life, condensed into the crawlspace of three paragraphs. How do you choose which parts to include? What is worthy of importance, and why? Which moments get the privilege of being memorialized, which memories get the pleasure of being left to rot? The…

Short Story

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The Life and Death of a Man I Never Knew until Today
The Life and Death of a Man I Never Knew until Today
Short Story

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Dec 29, 2021

The Fate of the Telegraph Operator

Cigarettes had no effect on him. They tanned his tongue into hide, left his throat cracked and dry like a shriveled salt flat. And yet the telegraph operator kept smoking. It was a remote outpost, some thirty miles from civilization on all sides of him, though a settlement of Catholic…

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Nov 20, 2021

Family Heirlooms

there is a cycle of violence that goes beyond wars and economic exploitation. there is violence beyond imperialism and misogyny and transphobia and every other word your mother told you to be scared of before you went to university the war followed us home. from pakistan to vietnam to sudan…

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Nov 19, 2021

time not found

you can know the value of something while you have it but its worth is something that can only be understood in hindsight it’s a stupid feeling, isn’t it? cheeks grow flush with a torrent of blood is that embarrassment or shame? what vintage is spilling over this time? you’ve…

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Sep 29, 2021

Excursion

And it was then that the panic set in on him, like a pack of wild dogs. It tore great chunks out of his psyche, gnashing reason and reality into piecemeal before swallowing it greedily, in the same way that a soldier drinks water following combat. Jordan felt his heartbeat…

Fiction

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Excursion
Excursion
Fiction

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Sep 24, 2021

Growing Pains

The image a child has of his father is that of brawn. A monument to all that is good and strong in the world, an eternal force that will watch over them and theirs. The image a child has of her mother is that of care. A testament to beauty…

Fiction

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Growing Pains
Growing Pains
Fiction

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Sep 9, 2021

Parting Gifts

Intellectualizing trauma and the things we do to cope is bad. But so is contextualizing that within a binary framework. There is no room for growth, for imagination, for all the lives we’ve yet to live between the white space of letters. Things simply are or they are not. It’s…

Fiction

4 min read

Fiction

4 min read

brandon

brandon

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i write whatever the humors tell me to

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