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Take Me Off Mute

A blistering declaration of self-possession, this piece rejects respectability politics, false mentorship, and the pressure to become smaller for other people’s comfort.

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Seen / Unseen

A raw, unflinching trauma narrative that captures the isolation of bipolar depression, exposing the distance between offered support and true presence, and the brutal persistence required to stay alive.

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Red Carpet, Then Wreckage

A sharp, unflinching trauma narrative that examines lovebombing as a form of psychological conditioning, tracing how intensity becomes addiction and how its aftermath distorts the way love is recognized.

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Third Degree Devotion

A searing trauma narrative that uses fire as a metaphor for loving someone unraveling, capturing the disorientation, manipulation, and aftermath of escaping a relationship that consumed everything.

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Gemini Stellium: Trinity of Chaos

A sparkling, high-velocity astrological lyric essay that uses a Gemini stellium to explore intellect as seduction, language as identity, and the endless reinvention of the self through curiosity and connection.

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Sag Rising: Feral Gait

A feral, glitter-toothed astrological lyric essay that uses Sagittarius Rising as a lens for instinct, motion, self-mythology, and the art of never standing still.

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The Tower Of Us

A tarot-structured essay about love, manipulation, and the reckoning that comes when you finally read the spread clearly.

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F31.81, In Partial Remission

A fierce, intimate essay that explores bipolar disorder through the lens of caregiving, tracing the tension between high-functioning professionalism and private collapse.

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“The Palms STill Stand. Crisp Silhouettes against a Hazy Sky, tall as guilt and just as thin. They line the driveway in symmetrical grief, as if trying to offer shade to something that can’t be cooled. Everything here is sun-bleached and wind-chapped, held together by spider webs and memory. The breeze tastes like eucalyptus and the air smells like dust that used to be skin.”

Noncompliant: A Sunglassed Elegy From Camarillo