Writer, pessimist, and a hilarious afterthought
Thank you for coming to my page. Whether you are here because I begged you or if you stumbled upon me, either way, you are very welcome! Reading and writing mean a great number of things to many people, but to me, it always meant that life was a little sweeter if I wasn’t the fat immigrant girl with a unibrow stuck very deeply in unrequited love, but instead some heroine chartering through unknown waters with a mystery man. We weren’t the family that got their food from the food bank because my mom was working three jobs and still couldn’t cover everything. Instead, we were the classic all-American family whose dog had run away, leaving poor Timmy or Johnny devastated.
As I got older, I realized that stories, if told right, have the power to unite us. Since the first caveman grunted his first woolly mammoth story around the cave fire, we have been hooked on sharing the world we already knew, and bending the truth to create a fabulously fabricated new world. My friends will be the first to tell you, I’m not always the best at verbal storytelling. The words can’t catch up to the world I am building in my head for the person listening. Often stories fall dead or miss their punchline. Once I figured out that writing was my way to express my thoughts, I never looked back. Instead, I began collecting.
Here you will find stories
told in poetry, prose, posts, and probably profound hyperbole
We barreled through boundaries In speeds unseen by the human eye A shooting star sizzling softly in the serenity of silence I whimpered and wept in bath water Finally understanding the fundamentals of finality As well as the weight of unwanted unity Belonging to nothing clung to your borders Acute adjournment adhered to my advances.…
Leaving to find peace While losing a piece of me in the process Paralyzed by pretension in a peculiar pattern I run As if the world was endless and the stars recklessly reached infinity regardless of rules. Admittedly time and space never made any sense in solitude Perhaps I passionately ponder in the unknown What…
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Anahita Kay 