Category: Atmospheric
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Everglazed
… I see the old couple who have their own Saturday routine. The husband always taps the window and waves excitedly at Gigi, not me, to be perfectly clear.
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Silk Walled World
Beside it rests my childhood bear, which doesn’t strike me as odd. Pappy’s glass eyes seem waterlogged, as if they’ve absorbed a thousand tears.
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Shale
The smell of twisted black iron lingered on my hands as I gripped the spiraling banister.
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Tilted
In the distance, a mushroom cloud rises while I’m talking to my mother. “Are we saying goodbye?” I ask, and she tells me to stay inside, take cover.
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for my spotty memory
on clear beginnings and still mornings and need vs want.
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Human 🎧
on airborne coffee and the appeal of lonely spaces.
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Waiting In the Tall Grass
“It’s amazing how we might return, time and time again, to a place we only might get scraps from.”
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Fortune July
on the Fourth of July, familial love, & joy, despite awareness of broader societal issues.
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why’s it always a weather metaphor? 🎧
on nuanced exploration of hope and anticipation amidst a heavy, silent sky.
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Current
“It feels like a place you’d stumble into as a kid, or an abandoned post-apocalyptic room that somehow remained untouched. I love how still it is, with only the fans gently going.”
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Via del Biscione 🎧
“They people-watch with their chins cupped in their hands, giggling madly at one another every so often when they stretch their necks far enough to catch each other’s stupid faces.”
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Shoes Stay On
A girl came up beside me and said, “I heard you were the person to speak to… about dancing?”
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Skin Therapy
“Not only is she empathizing, she’s already thinking of the sentence that will soothe me. It might be hilarious, or it might be the most grounding thing I need. It’s beautiful, how clearly I can count on that.”
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Care for a slice?
on hot days, dead flowers & connections & presence amidst distractions.
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Sleep Demon 🎧
“I walk through the same moonlit hallway, go into the bathroom with the same flickering light, and look at myself in the mirror.”
