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Living Like You’re In A Coming-Of-Age Film
There’s a particular feeling coming-of-age films always manage to capture, something soft at the edges, slightly nostalgic even while it’s happening. It’s the sense that every moment is quietly important, even when nothing dramatic is unfolding. A bus ride. A hallway. A late-night conversation that doesn’t seem life-changing until much later. Real life rarely announces…
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May 2026 Issue 4 Volume 1
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Workers’ Day
Workers’ Day was first officially recognized and celebrated as a public holiday in South Africa on 1 May 1994, following the country’s first democratic elections. While May Day rallies occurred as early as 1904 and widespread resistance movements celebrated it unofficially throughout the 1980s and 1990s, 1994 marked its official adoption. Workers’ Day (also known…
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The Summer Of Soak Up The Sun
This song was a childhood staple, the kind that played in the background of summers I didn’t realize I would miss, I remember getting C’mon, C’mon cd when I was four just for this song specifically, it was all over the radio and I have genuine childhood memories of my mom and I listening to…
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To The Little Girl I Once Was
Every time a doubtful thought appears, I think back to the little girl I once was. The little girl with big brown eyes who looked at the world with awe. The little girl who believed every dream she held was possible. The little girl who couldn’t wait to meet the woman I would become. The…
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Us
Days were slow then They are fast now We all were an us But now it’s them two, one and one We all found someone new But we will be together by our past too I don’t know about that you miss me or us But I, before missing us, miss you first This was…
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Fate Vs. Free Will: Did They Ever Really Stand A Chance?
The one thing all humans have in common is that no matter what we do, we all die. This is exactly what the Final Destination franchise builds on. Each movie begins with a death sequence in which all the characters die in an accident. This death sequence ends up being a premonition the main character…
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Life Used To Be Fun
This is for my pillars, my builders, and the people who need it. “Life used to be fun”. It’s something I always heard when talking about childhood memories or when people left a message on some random 2000s nostalgia video. “Life used to be fun”. It is a powerful phrase to say and so bold.…
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Making Room For You- Life After Kids
I am six years away from being an empty nester; however, I had my first son at twenty-two and the last a decade later. While I am fully aware these six years will have moments that move too quickly and days that drag on, I have no idea what it is like to be an…
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Neverending Questions
Every poem Yet for another yearning soul I would say every stanza vomits a rare fever embedded in my horizons Questions from starving minds Alter my heart Enclosed with doubt in their hearts Breathing the affliction into empty souls For every line I wrote There was a cloud formed from smoke. Image Source: Pexels, Andrea…
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Is It Too Late To Get A Do-over?
Is it too late to get a do-over? Maybe, but maybe not. George Clooney’s last line in the movie, Jay Kelly, is “Can I go again?” Was he wanting to see himself on the big screen again, or was he wanting a do-over? This isn’t a persuasive piece as there is no aim to bend…
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Another Day
They always say rotten goods are stored in cans Silently preaching for decay And oh, I guess that’s the best way to describe my head You might have seen But surely, you have not yet heard How my mind flips the coin And all the corns are popped in my head Another day to be…
