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holden's holiday home
June 16, 2025
Exhausted by an overwhelming life in the city, Sophie escapes to a rural holiday home. She meets her friendly and welcoming host, who does everything he can to make her comfortable. But things just don't feel quite right. Maybe she just isn't used to the quiet, peaceful countryside. Or maybe there is something sinister lurking just outside her room, something her host is completely oblivious to.
meandering in the summer rain
April 10, 2025
In a city like mine, it is a privilege to wander. It was a favorite pastime of my fifteen year old self to explore that urban terrain, to be lost yet free, to trek out an uncharted path. It was a unique moment: the twilight of her childhood, and entry to womanhood; moments to wonder at the passers-by, to imagine in the dark, and hide behind the rain.
the aftermath
February 19, 2025
I know very well how to make beginnings and how to pursue middles. But I am wholly unprepared to be confronted with the endings. Where do I put these loose ends? How do we destroy the things that have transpired? And we may romanticize closure, and beautify failures, but one thing is always clear: there can be no turning back.
if i loved you less
November 2, 2024
In the words of Jane Austen: if I loved you less, I may have been able to talk about it more.
The Last Sprint
October 3, 2024
A rip down the flag. The crack of the bullet. The terror of war upon us.
Cornered by the superior forces of the Japanese in WW2, a Chinese soldier makes a desperate run for the safety of Shang Hai, at the time a territory under the jurisdiction of Great Britain.
A Proposal in the style of Jane Austen's Mr. Collins
September 7, 2024
A very verbose, self-effacing yet pompous marriage proposal, written in the style of Mr. Collins, who features in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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