life
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I’m in fourth grade. We’re walking back to the classroom from lunch. I’m at the front of the line, following Mr. Powell This school was designed with outdoor hallways, so here we are in one. Mr. Powell has his hand up in Quiet Coyote and is walking backwards as we approach our building door. He…
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Sometimes, I hate being called cute. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, though it can be unnerving. It’s this shift in people’s eyes when they meet me: “Oh! You’re cute.” Almost cooing at me, like I’m a doll. I work as a dishwasher on the weekends. It’s a good job. It pays the bills, relatively…
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Again! I lost my wallet again! The fifteenth time this year, Vera says. I worried and fretted all the way to the cafe. Worried and ruminated as I tend to do and she soothed my anxieties, said it’s probably behind something we wouldn’t think to look. We didn’t have time to do a thorough search…
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This website’s getting somewhere now! This theme is so beautiful. It’s called the Blue Screen of Joy, inspired by Microsoft Windows’s Blue Screen of Death screen indicating a system crash. How silly! I love love love it. Joy is the name of my high-strung calico cat. Blue is my favorite color. This theme is perfect.…
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At twenty-two years old, I’ve given birth to a website! What a beautiful baby. The baby is premature and very malleable. I’m still figuring it out… there are a lot of ideas that I have! I will teach the baby how to look. What kinds of fonts, layouts, and systems the baby may don, I’m…
Pajolo Cam 