personal – Frostwritten

June 22, 2025

1000 words

I wrote 1000 words this week. Actually, more like 1500 words; somewhere in that realm. It doesn’t seem like a lot, probably. I’m sure a lot of writers do that in a day. But to me, it’s like running a 10k. I haven’t written a new project in more years than I care to admit. Continue reading

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May 21, 2025

dissonance

square peg meets round hole, too long I’ve tried to force it. maybe I don’t fit. Continue reading

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January 11, 2025

I dreamed I lost my teeth

I had a dream recently that I lost my teeth. It felt so real. Visceral. In the dream, I was standing in my bathroom, lost teeth rolling around in my mouth like loose pebbles. I stared at my reflection in horror, feeling each lost tooth with my tongue. My mouth was a mangled mess. I Continue reading

life, writer

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October 9, 2024

Unseen

Yesterday, at the grocery store, a woman came up to me as I was perusing the salads and said, “I wish you could see your hair in the sunlight. It looks so beautiful.” I hate grocery shopping. I only do it super early in the morning, right when the store opens. And I usually do Continue reading

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July 23, 2024

You Don’t Belong Here Anymore

I often dream of my old home, of all the rooms I used to know, familiar stairs, doorways, and halls, and the pear tree out the window. I find myself there, all alone, remembering how things were before, when the new owners suddenly appear, and tell me, “You don’t belong here anymore.” rooms tinged with Continue reading

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July 13, 2024

Defy the Odds

We had an assembly at my elementary school when I was in third grade. It was a magic show. I don’t remember much of it, but the magician did one card trick that has been burned into my memory for years. The details of the set-up are hazy, since it was over two decades ago, Continue reading

life

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April 3, 2024

flower

my love is like a flower, roots buried deep below, for even if the petals fall, it shall not cease to grow, brutal shoe and stomping boot, may seek to crush our bloom, and clutching weeds that strive to choke, will fail to bring our doom. beneath the winter snows, or the burning summer sky, Continue reading

writing

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January 22, 2024

Snow

Winter has been difficult. I don’t know why I expect it to be different, year to year. It is always the hardest season for me. But this winter has been especially challenging. I have felt its coldness all the way through my bones. In November, shortly after Thanksgiving, I had to say goodbye to my Continue reading

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December 3, 2023

Hopes and Fears

One of the first albums I ever bought with my own money was Keane’s 2004 album Hopes and Fears. I bought it at an outlet mall in the Poconos while on vacation with my family, and listened to it on my walkman the entire trip. Although it is, to this day, one of the only Continue reading

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September 25, 2023

Mistake

We all make mistakes. It’s part of being human. I recently ordered Starbucks after work (a true detriment to my diet, and my wallet, is that I work directly across from one) because the autumn drinks were released. I’m a sucker for a venti, hot apple crisp macchiato. When I rolled up to pick up Continue reading

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