Hello BrainScramble world! I’ve had the idea for a gossip/advice column for a long time, and I’m am […]
When I was clinically depressed, I always had a morbid preoccupation with the thought of my premature death […]
i. In those times we were all dying for love. There was little else to do. Fewer people […]
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I. The only thing worse than being pitied is people thinking you want to be pitied. Which is […]
Have you ever Each time you remember something Each time you try to remember some thing You remember […]
She goes in an afternoon sun. It’s hot, hot like you’ve never seen it; southwest sun meets continental […]
“There is sickness in their hearts, and Allah ˹only˺ lets their sickness increase. They will suffer a painful […]
confession #1: i was scared of elevators as a kid. i don’t know why. maybe because they were […]
It sits in my notes app. Updated frequently. As constant as the sun, Ascending to the top once […]
“The ground is cold and wet.” A whisper rustles up through the dirt, around the bushes, growing like […]
Mika Lynch-Lee in conversation with X No one knows how X feels about others. So I asked. M: […]
The air smells like rain and soil and denim and you tilt your head back and let it […]
Edited by Alloe Mak arthuriana is a colloquial term referring to the vast body of work about king […]
I’m sat cross-legged in the tea house, alternating between iced raspberry mint tea and piping milky chai in […]
Edited by Elisa K. Penha OVERTURE The life of a changeling was bound to two denouements: secrecy, or […]
Edited by Alloe Mak My mom tells me I am a difficult person to love. The night of […]
I am ten years old and holding a small handful of nuts and seeds, arm outstretched and still […]