An Assortment of Not-Rights

Just figuring things out.

Posts:

  • A random fictional draft amongst 100s.

    This writer’s block isn’t anything like the one I had my first semester, but it festers in other ways. I wish I had something beautiful to say but my days are filled with talking to… Read more

  • Lit Crit my Beloved

    Phenomenology, the Architectural Body, and Free Fall: How does Perception affect the Individual’s Relationship with a Space? Read more

  • a short statement of gratitude.

    Something peculiar happened today, about an hour ago, and that was that I drove past my elementary school and was filled with absolutely no dread at all – much of my high school years were… Read more

  • Brain Scan of my Days

    Published in SUNHOUSE Literary. Issue 2. March 2024. Read more

  • Rebirth // Microfiction

    I sit with holographic hallucinations in a place quite the opposite of escape; sitting at the one table in the dining hall, at 8:10 am, that falls victim to the stream of morning light that… Read more

  • Dreamscapes and Architecture

    My dreamscape consists of an upside house and a crumbling apartment complex, boldly allowing me to float between the pillars, avoiding toppling rubble because it’s my dream, and in my dream I’m able to dodge… Read more

  • New Year ramblings.

    A new year and I don’t feel any different. In fact, I feel years younger than I really am. Of course, when somebody asks how old I am, I say 18. 18 is monumental. Voting!… Read more

  • Trashed Draft #3 | possible recycle

    The weather was 18 degrees and the floor felt so chill to my face that it almost burned; my ears pressed against the wood that hummed from the washing machine tumbling in the basement. It… Read more

  • Horror & Stalking (not related)

    Recently, I’ve found myself leaning into horror a bit more. I always found the genre a bit meaningless and uninteresting. Jumpscares and spooky things got me but I didn’t really believe in ghosts or religious… Read more

  • A blog post about blogging.

    An intro of some sort, maybe a confession, too. Read more

  • [h]

    [h]. Also featured in Iteration so go take a look at that. I edit the publication. To whoever’s reading, love you. feeling things much more deeply these days. Read more

  • Within a Few Stanzas

    Listening to poetry, almost like an affidavit stating I can’t read poetry and I never have, although that’s a highly shortsighted and, frankly, annoying statement to make and what I mean is: all writers have… Read more

  • Updates 05/08

    Much of the rest of the year hinges on the fact that I get these concert tickets; not in that I am an uberfan (although I am), or that we are desperate enough to pay… Read more

  • Life of Leisure

    Despite it all, lying on the beach, hand in hand. Sun beating on her face, shirt sticking to her back. Anything that ever works out for her in her life pales in comparison to the… Read more

  • Observations of the Species

    Pulled from the archives: written for Lit Crit Spring ’24. Essay developed from a series of contemplations/observations that occurred after watching Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Read more

  • marching

    You become accustomed to the constant kneading of your flesh, the silver-plated horse hooves marching all over the thick of your skin throughout the year in sync with the seconds. Heavy. A good rhythm with… Read more

  • does the cow know why it’s being fed 

    i don’t know what to say as we’re sitting on the train together and i think i said something like: i loved when we used to have snow days. i think i was 6, and… Read more

  • dirt under my nails

    a post long overdue. Read more

  • [It takes Guts to] :: partial draft

    At some point in a fading dusk, Aileen wore a fuschia dress with mud- soaked brown combat boots, of which the gridded footprints trailed up to the 15th step of the staircase. She was barely… Read more

  • Linguistics

    Most people I know now would be shocked to hear that I was one of those kids that just couldn’t sit still in preschool. I had gone to two different preschools – the first was… Read more

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