She buys luxury handbags like they’re therapy sessions —Each one stitched in Italy, priced in guilt,And big enough to carry everything…Except what’s missing inside. She […]
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Match?
This young couple always dresses in matching colors.So I asked,“Matching on the outside… but are you matching on the inside?” She said, “I love poetry.”He […]
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The Stillness Between Reaches
I watched a snail stretch its head out like it had big dreams—bold, slow, but certain.Then—danger—zip! Back in its shell, no questions asked.Cautious courage. Flexible fear. […]
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Money Cannon
This is the modern economy in one shot:Wall Street’s firing cash without aiming,The U.S. government’s yelling, ‘Stimulus incoming!’A Silicon Valley VC is in the back […]
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Tasting Notes: Life
“Tasting wine is like tasting life,” she said thoughtfully, swirling her glass.“Some moments are dry, some are sweet… and some leave a weird aftertaste.” I nodded, […]
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He Drives, You Detour
She let her boyfriend drive—blindly romantic, like handing your GPS to a squirrel and hoping for Paris.Twenty minutes in, they’d circled the same gas station […]
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Beauty with a Spine
People always swoon over my beauty and fragrance—but the moment they meet my thorns, they call me difficult. Excuse me, darling—those aren’t flaws, that’s called […]
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Elbows Up
These days, Canadian maple syrup gets its own inspection line. Copper sets off its own metal detector. And Canadian hockey players? They get pulled aside […]
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Red-Hot Until Boiled
The crab strutted down the street like it owned the place. No one mattered. Nothing could stop it. It thought it was famous—red-hot and unstoppable.Until […]
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Seen Too Late
They called me an ugly duckling, time and again,so I stopped reaching for eyes that never saw me. And that’s when they finally looked—but by […]
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