modern mythology

  • There is a danger that doesn’t look dangerous. It doesn’t crash into your life.It doesn’t demand entry.It sits down beside you and offers advice. People with nothing left to lose are not brave. They are unanchored.And unanchored people drift into the lives of builders, borrowing what they cannot create and draining what they cannot replace.…

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  • Don’t Ask Alice-entry V

    (Headphones on-Neoni-Darkside) I keep thinking about how Starry Night was painted from inside an asylum. People talk about it like that explains everything, like darkness automatically makes something meaningful. Like losing yourself is the same thing as seeing clearly. That’s not what I notice. What I notice is the control. The repetition. The way every…

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  • The Mad Tea on Main Street

    Alice was walking home when she passed the café. Home wasn’t really home yet. It was just the place she returned to when the city ran out of streets to wander. She had been drifting through the upside-down parts of town for weeks now, the places where storefronts stayed half-lit and conversations felt unfinished. She…

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