Robin

she/her | in my twenties | Software Engineer | not a native speaker

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Robin

she/her | in my twenties | Software Engineer | not a native speaker

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The Art of Pettiness

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Robin

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Henry and Juliet are fighting their way through the West Pacific woods. They move slowly, burdened by their big backpacks. Juliet collapses onto the muddy forest floor.

“I give up.” She slides under a big cedar tree, fleeing the downpour of icy rain. With a strained groan, she unshoulders the camping backpack and sits on it, head tilted downward in defeat.

Two months earlier, Henry and Juliet...

Adventure

Humour

Ribcage Cherry

Robin

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My parents told me not to swallow cherries whole. Spit the pits out — not here, not where everyone can see. Go somewhere alone, they said, where no one will witness the disgusting act of the pit leaving your mouth.

So I went alone into a dark alley.

Hands covered my mouth before I could spit.

Beneath sheets of earth I lie now. Earth in my mouth, worms in my nostrils, sand in my eyes. My flesh mel...

Horror

Poetry