Ventomology

CAMP NANO TIME Haha I've actually never done this? I'm going to go like... uni elective style on this and write ten goals and hold myself accountable for maybe 3-5 ...

Wednesday, October 15, Evening The problem, Francesca discovered, after two days of twiddling her thumbs and thinking and planning out a quilt, was that she had no clue what ‘her ...

Monday, October 13th, Afternoon Francesca stewed as she walked home. She shouldn’t have to do this. Surely Marvin Grace, called upon already by this uppity other wizard, and already familiar ...

Monday, October 14, Late-Morning So, maybe Francesca got a little lost. She didn’t get lost in the literal sense–though with the city layout changing every day, she was surprised by ...

Cont. She was in so much trouble. But since the department of public utilities would be shortstaffed without her at this moment, maybe she had some grace before any potential ...

Cont. Somehow, she even did it without coffee. And then, once the sun had risen fully over the horizon, Francesca finally stood up for a break. Her face was oily, ...

Lullaby for Those who Stay Up Too Late - Recording Haha I cannot write piano accompaniment and also do not have recording things so it's a lil jank BUT. Here's ...

Cont. The screen of her camera blinked, warning her that she was about to shoot at several different shutter speeds. She tapped her glasses. She couldn’t miss the flare of ...

Sonnet Five: Where Am I Even Going? My tiny red corolla carries me along the sprawling highways of our land-- drive east, a steady forty MPG, and west, my mileage ...

Twenty-Five: Boring My parents dated seven years before they married. I'm the same age now as they were when they met, in graduate school, at a party for Dad's Taiwanese ...

Twenty-Four Light dives through the great, gaping hole of my eye and bends to the optic nerve on the far side, focused, for me, by glasses so thick they slip ...

Twenty-Three: Unintended Career Choices Three books and three languages not in the plan Two years in this job and it's way out of hand One piece of advice: they will ...

Twenty-Two empty car empty apartment i string words together-- i piece words together?-- i speak words and pray they fit repeat them to myself at the stove at the sink ...

Sonnet Four Two spirits, both alike in dignity, In times too old to name we lay our scene. From ancient grudge, now joined eternally, Their icy rage turned icy cage ...

Twenty-One There once was a poet named Vento Who rhymed as she scarfed down her bento She had this small quirk where she wrote poems at work And left her ...