On July 24th 2020, two momentous events occurred. 1: Taylor Swift released her 8th studio album, and it is all I have listened to since. 2: I got a rejection …
Read MoreWhen the pandemic hit, most of my friends moved away practically overnight. As a university student, I had grown used to not seeing my friends for months at a time. …
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Read MoreI’ve been reading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver since June 2019. The past ten months have been busy, chaotic, and intense, and as much as I love to escape into fantasy …
Read MoreI am fascinated by destruction. My novel, The Purest Form of Chaos, has two protagonists: one is called Phoenix, after the bird that resurrects from its own ashes, and …
Read MoreRecent circumstances have proven to me that I have nowhere near the number of life experiences I want to. As I contemplate all the things I have done in my …
Read MoreHow concerned should I be that I don’t know the favourite songs of most of the people I’m close to, but I have half their astrology charts memorised? Imagine it’s …
Read MoreLadies, gentlemen, and nonbinary humans, what you are about to witness is the tale of a true feminist icon. Her name? Cinnamon. Her purpose? Protector of Peel Street from rodent …
Read MoreThe unfortunate truth about life is that “this, too, shall pass” also applies to the good things. As my time at university comes to its premature end, I gaze into …
Read MoreThere have been periods in my life where it felt like the story ended mid-sentence. I spent days, or weeks, or months waiting for the wheel of fortune to spin, …
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