With autumn comes the careening of the Whale, bringing tales of transition, transformation, and yearning.
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I started writing an apocalyptic fictional story in an Apocalypse writing class that I took last year and I was surprised to encounter the long drawn process of wanting an audio text fiction that was multi sensory
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I hold a little poem by me that is conceptually experimental and is in tandem with the new learnings of the future as well as an ode to my spirit of telling a multi faceted story in existential forms