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For the overthinkers, the almost-lovers, and the ones who never forget. brokewriterbooks.substack.com
I just posted about some of my writing experience on substack.
Come join the conversation!
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24.09.2025 14:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Have you ever felt like you had to wear a mask to impress someone? π
Read the full story on my Substack here: [https://brokewriterbooks.substack.com/]
#ShortStory #Fiction #TheMask #CreativeWriting #Substack #Relatable #CoffeeShopStory
They're perpetually the victim, and yet they can never imagine themselves on the business end of the kind of violence they casually imply every day.
11.09.2025 04:51 β π 130 π 29 π¬ 3 π 0
I thought I had time.
To call.
To apologize.
To still matter.
Voicemail 006 β βMarch 21st, 2022β
You have 1 saved message.
#voicemailseries #grief #lostlove #writingcommunity #spokenword
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31.07.2025 15:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π You Have 1 New Message
Sometimes closure comes too late.
Sometimes it never comes at all.
This is the first in a new series of unsent voicemails β the things we wish we said before it all fell apart.
If youβve ever loved someone who didnβt stay:
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Something feels different tonight.
A girl is gone. A man is sweating.
And someoneβs watching β too closely.
π΄ Red Lamp Inn: Cycle Five
Sometimes you don't check in. You retreat.
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#fiction #RedLampInn #motelnoir
π€She was never mine.
Just someone the universe let pass through me long enough to change everything.π€
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Will we get to heaven still
π΄ Red Lamp Inn: Cycle Four
Part 1: Three points of view.
Part 2: One wall. One voice. One listener.
No blood. No body.
Just sound, and the choice to stay.
βRed genie lamps in every room. The rest is up to you.β
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"Maybe love is imagined, like pain β something we convince ourselves is real.
But whatever this was... I felt it about Angel.
What I felt wasnβt just in my heart or my head. It was in my soul."
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If Republicans make massive cuts to Medicaid, it will impact all aspects of our health care system. Millions of kids will lose coverage, hospital and insurance rates will soar and nursing homes will shut down.
All this in order to give huge tax breaks to billionaires.Β
NO CUTS TO MEDICAID.
If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny.
26.02.2025 14:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
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While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent.
SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
