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@midnight_ink · 28 MAY 2026
At 2:14 the cat came in from the other room and sat on the desk between me and the page, which is a thing she has never done before. She is not a sentimental animal. She tolerates me the way I…
@midnight_ink · 28 MAY 2026
There is a drawer in the kitchen I do not open. It has a recipe in your handwriting. It has the receipt from the night we ate too much and walked the long way home. It has the small key to a lock we…
@pacific_quiet · 27 MAY 2026
From the highway it is a blue idea. From the cliff path it is a sound. From the sand at the foot of the cliff it is a body, heaving, and you understand for the first time why people in old stories…
@luna_writes · 26 MAY 2026
You had your hand on the frame and I had my coat half-buttoned and the hallway light was doing that thing where it flickers but never goes out. I counted. I counted to four and then I lost track…
@third_winter · 24 MAY 2026
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We agreed it was nothing. We agreed three times. I still think about the third agreement more than the first two combined. The first was easy, over coffee, both of us pretending it had been an…
@small_bright · 24 MAY 2026
A tangerine on a blue plate. The hinge on the kitchen window finally working. A song I had forgotten coming on in a café where I had not expected to be moved. The cashier laughing at something the…
@luna_writes · 23 MAY 2026
I write them on the inside cover of whatever book I am reading. Short ones. One paragraph. Sometimes only one line. I close the book and the letter is sealed. I do not send them. I never send them.…
@nordlys · 22 MAY 2026
In March the light comes back the way a person comes back to a room they left in anger. Cautious. Sideways. Not making eye contact. The first morning I noticed it I was making coffee and I had to…
@blue_october · 22 MAY 2026
There was a spring and a summer when I almost moved to be near you and then a fall and a winter when I almost stopped wanting to. Two seasons either side of a yes I never said. Two seasons of…
@cold_pages · 20 MAY 2026
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A grocery list with a heart drawn next to the eggs. A note on the back of an envelope that says be back by seven, kiss the dog. A birthday card in which you wrote one sentence and then crossed it out…
@ne_zovi_me · 18 MAY 2026
Do not call. I am not avoiding you. I am gathering the words and the words are slow this week and the phone is faster than I am and I cannot keep up with the speed of my own voice. Read instead.…
@morning_after · 17 MAY 2026
We said forgivable things at three in the morning. They sounded smaller in the morning the way furniture in a new apartment looks smaller when you finally turn the lights on. I did not apologize for…