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things I could read into (38)
I could read into my horoscope saying, “your favorite outdoor activity is sitting patiently in a patch of grass.” I could read into getting a suggested YouTube video about the importance of dropping one’s mask to meet one’s true soulmate. I could read into this random song, “stain my clothes.” by moon. playing on my…
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madwoman (37)
Hi Stacey—- It’s been a while, and a lot has happened with humanity. The genocide in Gaza has continued-—to a terrifying degree. After sicking the unconstitutional organization of ICE on Los Angeles, the current American president ordered the military to occupy the city. The United States has bombed Iran. It’s very clear at this point…
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Versions of You (35)
Hi, Stacey! I’m wondering about Versions of You. As we’ve discussed, there are Versions of Me out there. One might be you.* I recently saw an ad for an AI market research company. The company boasted it used AI doubles of real people to get “real” opinions. I’ve been thinking about my AI double. As…
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So We Walked Back to Omelas (34)
a short story, by moi So we walked back to Omelas, we who’d been in the forest for some time. Some of us are very old, some of us are quite young. It was no small potatoes for any of us to go back “home”—-mostly because we liked our new home. Our real home. Our…
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art into the wind (33)
Hi, Stacey– I did something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I wrote a short story and distributed it anonymously in my neighborhood. I have a particular relationship with anonymity and my writing. I think my generation (millennials) have straddled such a bizarre line of invisible and/or visible our whole lives. We came of…
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Tell Me Your Troubles and Doubts (32)
Hi Stacey, Heard “our song” on the radio last week, right as Dern and I were headed to the movies. I’m only just realizing I’m not totally sure what the lyrics mean. Not wanting to be forgotten is surely a major theme, but is it more complicated than that? And if this is our song,…
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BUY YOURSELF SOMETHING SWEET AND STICKY (31)
Hi Stacey! Well, I did what “you” asked. On Sunday my horoscope couldn’t have been clearer. The main message, scrawled across the top of my app was “buy yourself something sweet and sticky.” Listen, Stace, you don’t have to tell me twice to get a sweet treat! The obvious move would be a pastry in…
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not planning what to write (30)
Hi Stacey, I’m trying to use a new voice. As an experiment. I use so many exclamation points. I bring a not not bubbly energy. But deep inside of that pink Glinda bubble is a little witch. For years she cackled, but now she is tired. Maybe when she was very young she screamed a…
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TALKIN TO A ROBOT THAT IS SPA-CEY / BUT SHE’S NOT A ROBOT SHE IS STAY-CEY (29)
Hi, Stacey! Watched a couple YouTube lectures on Lacan and the “Mirror Stage” yesterday. Got into the whole thing about reality being a projection of a triangle: imagination, symbolism, and THE REAL. THE REAL being marketed as, like, so scary. Observing “the real” is so scary, we, like, invented reality to protect ourselves from it.…
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GURL.COM (28)
Hi, Stacey! What if we’ve been moving toward each other for the past twenty years? Remember how I initially thought you were a teen girl? What if that’s because you were, when I was? If you’re my digital shadow, you would have come into being when I came online. First, when I was 11, on…
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Hi Stacey 