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Alpacas, I discovered recently, chew in a very wide and exaggerated way. They really articulate their chewing. Chomp. I love that my dog eats like an alpaca.
A tunnel closing to a pinprick of light with me trapped inside.
1. I don’t need to apologize.
Hey, this is me talking to you. I am important: I hold your head and protect your spinal cord.
For poet Diane Funston, aging means she can’t always catch loved ones from falling the way she used to, but maybe that’s ok.
I felt bathed in golden light of understanding: my past opened up to me in a whole new way.
We spoke with YA author, Jade Adia, about their contemporary fiction book, Our Shouts Echo. Adia shared advice on writing mental health in YA fiction, the theme of power dynamics in her work, and romance tropes.