quiet awakening
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(Headphones on-Tycho-Awake) Nothing happened today. No collapse. No epiphany. No moment dramatic enough to tell someone about. The kind of day that would have terrified me once because it offered nothing to cling to. I woke up without urgency. No need to check messages to see who still wanted me. No inventory of what I…
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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…
