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featured essays below, updated in real-time.
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Are you ready for this life? Like tracing fingers on baby feet, you only notice emotions when you feel excitement or pain or certain specific things. Drunk breathing keeping you from going to sleep. Your body vibrates from the movement of your drumming heartbeat. Between the cities and thrills we keep cheap, something inside doesn’t read more.
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Dear voyeur, I think about looking through your windows, just to see if you clean your dishes when you come home or if you finish them after you sit-down to eat. If I think of you enough, would you think of me as more than just a memory? You keep our shallow time together as read more.
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[subtitle: things i notice when i focus] It’s hard to fall asleep in a restful mundane when a screaming inner child hides behind these adult doors. I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes with my chest swollen with pain and throat scratchy sore. I’m on the second floor, downstairs exists two dogs read more.
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When you’re young, you can easily recall where you first learned something. Now that I’m older, there are some things I wish I could forget. When I was little, I had a list of people I prayed for every night. I would run through it, mention world peace, and blanket statement friends and family if read more.
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I used to fall on my knees and get up easily. Using skateboards and helmets to throw myself down, now I look around and notice how many people grew up before me. Just over five foot tall, twenty four looking over the edge of the Baytown bridge and find the world watching waiting for me read more.
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