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Shut your eyes and think of somewhere.

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“The Arrival of the Past” by Scott Owens

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“Brute Dictation” by Jules Gibbs

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fr. “Summer Solstice” by Stacie Cassarino

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don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?

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Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

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the way usamericans talk about their military fucks me up. thank you for what service like which service are they providing you with. they're protecting your country from what. they're fighting for the freedom of whomst. why do they need to do that for and why are they doing in it in the middle east

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fr. “Seven Poems” by Mark Strand

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obligatory post today

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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(trying to give relationship advice) from a narrative perspective i think both of you dying together would be the most emotionally satisfying resolution but i’m guessing that’s not what you want to hear

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Fauna, Richard Siken

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I hope we all make it

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I think that if you actually loved me, you wouldn't have done the things that you did

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Learn to let go, it will be okay

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“I wanted to be tall and open as a door, but I was sick. A sick daughter. I needed my father’s hand across my forehead. To feel unequivocally allowed. Allowed, then lifted. Lifted, then trusted. Trusted, then trusted.”

— Shira Erlichman, from “The Bipolar Nanny Diaries” (Catapult, Jun 16, 2020)