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Nobody Is Coming
what if the person you've been waiting for is you? a little something about waiting, wasted years, and finally moving.
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Hey Hira!! how do your poems always manage to get me thinking about stuff I wouldn't have otherwise thought about today? I really love the idea of writing a letter ...
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Museum of Becoming
Hey Hira!!♡ I absolutely LOVED the idea of this piece. The idea of walking through a museum of self with rooms dedicated to who u were and who u could ...
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2026 PlanMo Journal Challenges
Hello hello, and welcome to Planning Month (PlanMo)! October is the time to prepare for Novel Writing Month (NovMo) in November, and we hope the activities we have here will ...
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My Winter
The place where I live is very hot, and I hate summer, but love winter. This year winter was late, and I was in much longing, so I wrote this.
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Can she get better with time?
Hey! Had to reread this a couple times to really understand what and who this was about, which made it a lot more fun to read! In two stanzas you ...
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