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on mother’s day
i find myself falling back into the past instead of hoping for the future. [ this piece is actually from 2020 and i posted an edited version of it on another platform last year. ] my mother and i were never each others to begin with. mother’s day: i’m not sure what to think of Continue reading
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Finding Connections in Lonely Castle In the Mirror
[ a literary analysis / introspective piece I wrote for a college application this past month. the prompt was to talk about a recent piece of media that impacted you. ] Since I can remember I have enjoyed reading. As a child my mom would read to me in the afternoons, and I would always Continue reading
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to the last days of december
journal entry #4 blogmas is over and while i did hope to post 25 blog posts in 25 days i’m still happy with the 7 i got written. it’s more blog posts than i’ve published in the past year. lol i’m sorry if this post is more melancholy than usual. a year ending isn’t all sadness Continue reading
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falling snow, the scent of pine in the air, childhood left behind
journal entry #3 blogmas day 7 eleven months have already gone by and now december is slipping past my fingers. someone mentioned the other day that there are only two more sundays until christmas. i felt my stomach sinking at the thought. my family and i haven’t even put up our tree yet. it’s sitting Continue reading
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Recent Things From This Week
Blogmas Day 6 I may have forgotten to post for the past three days and am now behind. I’ll just add the days onto the end of Blogmas to make up for it. 😅 Books Writing Other Things ~ Ming What things have you been loving lately? Continue reading
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Secret WIP Excerpt
When I first came to Hampton I was a mere child, bright eyed at the endless mansion and the sloping grounds that belonged to it. Hampton was a place from a storybook, it held secrets I was curious to learn. When I left eleven years later, at the age of nineteen, it had twisted and… Continue reading
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Book Review // Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 🌟🌟🌟🌟 (4/5) “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again…” And so the famous modern gothic romance that is Rebecca begins. The heroine, a narrator who remains unnamed through the story, works as a paid companion to a busybody old lady. On their trip to the south of France Continue reading
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Last Moments of October
journal entry #2 i started writing this back at the end of october and never finished it. every year i wait for autumn to arrive slowly in all of its colors. the weather cools and leaves of red, orange, and yellow fall at my feet as i walk across the parking lot to my job. Continue reading
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Book Review // A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid 🌟🌟🌟(3.5/5 stars) Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping Continue reading
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blogmas and other end of the year things
happy december 1st everyone. december brings about the holidays and the feeling that time is running out. another year is almost over and what have i actually done? if the answer is “not blogged” you’re certainly not wrong. whenever i disappear from blogging for over a month it’s never something i mean to do and Continue reading
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