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The Capable One — a woman built from a bus schedule and a cold apartment wall

27 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

There is a version of me my family has believed in for eleven years, and I have never once corrected them. Not because it was generous of me. Because by the time I noticed the mistake, I liked her better than I liked the truth. The myth is that I ha...

Empty or exhausted — what a dried-out pen already knows about the wanting to

23 Aug 2026 3 minute read 2 comments Nurnobi Islam

I've started measuring time by how many days I can go without really looking at anyone. Not in the way people mean when they say they're tired of people. I still nod at the neighbor, still ask the cashier how her shift's going. What I mean is—I've g...

Relief — missing who two weeks of fear made me

21 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

The day the test came back clean, I did not cry, the way I had pictured for two weeks that I would. I stood in the kitchen holding the phone after the call had already ended, feeling strangely level, the way a room feels once a fever breaks and nobod...

The Four Words I Never Told Anyone I Was Still Paying For

18 Aug 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

Her name was Deb. She ran the hardware counter at the back of a garden center on the edge of town, the summer I was nineteen and needed somewhere to be five days a week that wasn't my own house. A bell hung over the door there, an actual bell, not an...

The Story That Made Me Rethink My Flaws.

11 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Thrive Daily

Have you heard the story of the cracked pot? I’ve heard this one before — maybe you have too. It’s one of those quiet little parables that stays with you. On the surface, it's simple — a pot with a crack, leaking water along the path. But beneath it...

The Man in the Glass

29 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments 7R!XxSec

At first I was the Viewer of The Man in the Glass, Though now I am become The Observed. Relationship enfolding within future the past, Linearity becoming absurd.   I witness now a Being here, As I was before, His service is my service, We are equal,...

Breaking Free from Delusion....Trying To Confront Paranoia

30 Sep 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Magoozla

In a world where mental health struggles often go unspoken, poetry serves as a powerful medium for expression and reflection. Today, I present "Cunts in the Roof," written by myself. This poem dives deep into the tumultuous landscape of paranoia, add...