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GOLDEN FRUIT (Novel in progre…
What Should Remain Hidden?
Enchantment is shy
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Goodbye, August
How to enjoy the next seven days. Also, I'm gifting students a one-year subscription.
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How to look someone in the eyes
Eye contact is a luminous crossing where two people meet, make galactic intercourse, then recoil, changed.
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Confessions of a shy but talented girl
I feel underestimated by the world, and worse, they might be right because I haven't done enough to prove otherwise.
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How do you know they're THE ONE?
I'M ENGAGED ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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How lucky are you allowed to get?
What to do when you feel like life is stupidly great
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Artificial intelligence is making you genuinely stupid
Do the hard thing. There are no shortcuts to excellence. And, a call for the revival of academia.
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July 2025

Diary of a people watcher, pt. 2
Someone called this series "literary street photography". Here's another one, on friends and lovers:
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Diary of a people watcher
Strangers I secretly watched recently—they didn’t see me, but I saw everything.
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SOLICITED ADVICE #12: Unanswerable things
Not from askingsherry@gmail.com this week but a very good question
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Smartphones and lovemaking
The philosophy of sexiness & cultivating life as one long act of love
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Narcissus, indulged
A story of a beautiful boy who loved himself to death
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