Pain
Seeing the Laughter Inside the Pain
Life is not about knowing who you are or whether everything will be okay.
Newsletter
About This Space: For Those Who Refuse To Stay Unseen
I write for people who feel deeply and refuse to stay unseen. For the ones who look strong on the outside while carrying a sensitivity that can feel like both a blessing and a burden. For those who have spent years trying to understand themselves, because I have too, and
contemporary poetry
In the Meantime, We’ll Always Have Florence
For the first time, I let myself sing.
Creative Nonfiction
This Time, I’ll Do It My Way
On identity and how easily you can become a version of yourself built from noise, validation and repetition.
memoir writing
I Was Not Chosen Because I Did Not Choose Myself
I began to notice the ways I kept erasing myself.
Poetry
The Same Cut
Inspired by the writing prompt from Nimila the Inferno for ///// THE CUT ///// Let THE CUT be at the center of it. What does the cut evoke? What does it change, reveal, hide, return? Where does it hurt? Why does it stay? For every cut that marked my skin, for the
memoir writing
The Winter I Failed This Self
I threw away those rotten roses, white and red.
contemporary poetry
Hush, little boy
A lullaby
contemporary poetry
What If It Was Always Summer?
On Waking After Winter
Psychological writing
What Is It That You’re Hiding From?
Perhaps the truth you escape, but pretend to seek?
Video Poetry
The Path I Didn’t Take
Days stretched wide, heaviness weighed my chest down, pressed me onto my bed, forced me to dive under my duvet with the burden of an empty calendar for the day, and every other day after. On one morning, light invaded my sight, my eyelids waged a quiet war with waking
Write It Away
Write It Anyway Contest
Give yourself permission to write the piece you’ve been postponing.