Slow down and let go
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It’s been a crazy period, and I’ve been rushing along headlong. Once more into the breach my friends and all that. And now I’m crashing.
The hardest poly
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It’s been several years, but I remember this moment vividly. My heart shriveling in my chest, the emotions strong enough to physically hurt.
Sinking beneath the waves
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How much writing advice was based on typewriters?
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I remember the first time I used a typewriter. It was somewhere in the mid-80s, and my parents had bought an old “portable” mechanical typewriter. It wasn’t really vintage. It had probably been made somewhere in the 60s or 70s. It used ribbons, and you had to bang the keys down with a fair amount of force. Hit the wrong two keys at the same time, and the arms would get stuck.
I should have stayed dead
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I understand why she did it. I cannot blame her, she acted out of love. But what she did to me was unforgivable. She condemned me to this fate, and I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.
Close Your Eyes
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I sat there, in the waiting room, biting my nails. I hadn’t done that since I was little, but the nerves were getting to me. This deeply alien feeling of being disconnected. A fucking Ludd, except involuntary.
Lucy in a kitten wig
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My kitten and I had a huge argument today. Except: it wasn’t actually her, it was my brain weasel Lucy, disguised as her – and the whole thing happened inside my head.
The Long Dark
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It’s this time of year again, where it feels like it simply doesn’t get light at all. If I don’t set an alarm, I find myself sleeping 10 hours a night, and even then, I move around in a fog.
Happy Boxing Day!
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Or, as we call it in the Netherlands, the second day of Christmas. Over here it’s often the day you spend with family that lost out on Christmas Day, settling in for a second big dinner, while still groaning from all you at the night before.
The Bodycount Riddle
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Slowly you approach the Sphinx. It was a long journey, but the famed treasure is almost yours. All you need to do now, is answer the riddle.