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All My Friends Are Fictional
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„That next morning, arriving at the hour of her death, Scheherazade pauses the story on a cliff-hanger. The king delays her execution, […] and does so for 1,001 nights. Some claim that the king falls in love with Scheherazade and spares her life. Others claim that the king doesn't simply fall in love but learns to love by listening to Scheherazade, and therefore Scheherazade saves herself.“
— Dec 07, 2025 08:00AM
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All My Friends Are Fictional
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„My mother's name is Chiến.
My father's name is Mỹ.
Chiến comes from the Vietnamese word for war.
Mỹ comes from the Vietnamese word for beauty.
I'm a child of war.
I'm a child of beauty.
Beauty took me from War.
Beauty left me.
War found me.
I left what I come from.
I found other wars and other beauties.
I took me from them.
I took me from me.
I took me with me.“
— Dec 07, 2025 07:44AM
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My father's name is Mỹ.
Chiến comes from the Vietnamese word for war.
Mỹ comes from the Vietnamese word for beauty.
I'm a child of war.
I'm a child of beauty.
Beauty took me from War.
Beauty left me.
War found me.
I left what I come from.
I found other wars and other beauties.
I took me from them.
I took me from me.
I took me with me.“
All My Friends Are Fictional
is on page 71 of 112
„Retweeted. Right off
the runway. So damn Vogue
I make you dip.
Death-drop. So gorgeous
I make you drop dead. Jesus.
My winter will outlast
Anna Wintour.
The only season
is me. My sister.
Her steady hand.
Her eye on the sparrows:
my eyebrows.
[…]
My sister taking
a step back. A step forward.
This angle. That angle.
This is devotion.
Attention. Revision.
Precision.
A sister assisting her sister
in becoming.“
— Dec 07, 2025 07:28AM
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the runway. So damn Vogue
I make you dip.
Death-drop. So gorgeous
I make you drop dead. Jesus.
My winter will outlast
Anna Wintour.
The only season
is me. My sister.
Her steady hand.
Her eye on the sparrows:
my eyebrows.
[…]
My sister taking
a step back. A step forward.
This angle. That angle.
This is devotion.
Attention. Revision.
Precision.
A sister assisting her sister
in becoming.“
All My Friends Are Fictional
is on page 69 of 112
GALILEO
„I thought I could stop
time by taking apart
the clock. Minute hand. Hour hand.
Nothing can keep. Nothing
is kept. Only kept track of. I felt
passing seconds
[…]
I put on my best face.
I was glamour. I was grammar.
Yet my best couldn't best my beast.
I, too, had been taken apart.
I didn't want to be
fixed. I wanted everything dismantled and useless
like me. Case. Wheel. Hands. Dial. Face.“
— Dec 07, 2025 07:15AM
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„I thought I could stop
time by taking apart
the clock. Minute hand. Hour hand.
Nothing can keep. Nothing
is kept. Only kept track of. I felt
passing seconds
[…]
I put on my best face.
I was glamour. I was grammar.
Yet my best couldn't best my beast.
I, too, had been taken apart.
I didn't want to be
fixed. I wanted everything dismantled and useless
like me. Case. Wheel. Hands. Dial. Face.“
All My Friends Are Fictional
is on page 63 of 112
„The new form said Identify triggers.
Click of the key turning in the lock of the door.
The new form said Identify recurring memories.
Repetition of one foot placed in front of the other.
The new form said Identify survival strategies.
Pulling the string I thought was for the light.
I marked Rationalizing.
Ceiling fan whirring like helicopter blades.
I marked Denial.
Odor of Heineken and pubic sweat.“
— Dec 07, 2025 06:58AM
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Click of the key turning in the lock of the door.
The new form said Identify recurring memories.
Repetition of one foot placed in front of the other.
The new form said Identify survival strategies.
Pulling the string I thought was for the light.
I marked Rationalizing.
Ceiling fan whirring like helicopter blades.
I marked Denial.
Odor of Heineken and pubic sweat.“
