imnotevenhere
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Writer | Insomniac | Second Born
Also barely existing: IG @broiled_mermaid
Stories: 805 Lit+Art, Lighthouse Weekly, Monkeybicycle and The Los Angeles Review.
Also barely existing: IG @broiled_mermaid
Stories: 805 Lit+Art, Lighthouse Weekly, Monkeybicycle and The Los Angeles Review.
Yesterday for the first time in its life, my shoulder cracked sideways.
January 21, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Yesterday for the first time in its life, my shoulder cracked sideways.
How do people just walk down stairs without looking?
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
How do people just walk down stairs without looking?
First dates should happen at a grocery store. You can eliminate so many people early on just watching how they shop for items, if they know what said item even is, etc. Beats having to find out they were incompetent later on.
January 18, 2026 at 12:08 AM
First dates should happen at a grocery store. You can eliminate so many people early on just watching how they shop for items, if they know what said item even is, etc. Beats having to find out they were incompetent later on.
Someone just called it a "toy plane built to scale." The flight attendants are going down the aisle sideways.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Someone just called it a "toy plane built to scale." The flight attendants are going down the aisle sideways.
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Holy shit. Just got on the smallest plane. I think first class help fly it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Holy shit. Just got on the smallest plane. I think first class help fly it.
One of my greatest joys is making my mother swear at me out of love.
(An old Trevor Noah bit that gets her every time).
(An old Trevor Noah bit that gets her every time).
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One of my greatest joys is making my mother swear at me out of love.
(An old Trevor Noah bit that gets her every time).
(An old Trevor Noah bit that gets her every time).
I've been so locked in on Lanternfly Watch, I almost bitch slapped a butterfly because it approached from my blindspot.
October 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I've been so locked in on Lanternfly Watch, I almost bitch slapped a butterfly because it approached from my blindspot.
Convinced her to buy sticky hand toys and she legit asked me what was the point of them.
You throw it. Against the wall. And it sticks.
What more do you need to have a good time??
You throw it. Against the wall. And it sticks.
What more do you need to have a good time??
September 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Convinced her to buy sticky hand toys and she legit asked me what was the point of them.
You throw it. Against the wall. And it sticks.
What more do you need to have a good time??
You throw it. Against the wall. And it sticks.
What more do you need to have a good time??
Doing my due diligence as the Second Born helping buy toys for the First Born's Soles4Souls trip because the First Born had to learn about taxes and shake hands with adults instead of playing with yo-yos like me.
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Doing my due diligence as the Second Born helping buy toys for the First Born's Soles4Souls trip because the First Born had to learn about taxes and shake hands with adults instead of playing with yo-yos like me.
One of the places I was thinking of submitting to asked for an author pic on the odd chance of acceptance so I started looking for an appropriate photo, but all my photos are so unserious and I really don't know what I was expecting. My profile pic on this site is me in a box.
September 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
One of the places I was thinking of submitting to asked for an author pic on the odd chance of acceptance so I started looking for an appropriate photo, but all my photos are so unserious and I really don't know what I was expecting. My profile pic on this site is me in a box.
Submittable got me out here checking my messages like I'm waiting for a boy to text me back.
September 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Submittable got me out here checking my messages like I'm waiting for a boy to text me back.
Went camping and survived!
August 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Went camping and survived!
The First Born has secretly been buying frozen fish. It's a secret because we grew up by the sea, but don't live there anymore, we like fish, but not over the counter stuff, and if our father found out about all the dishonor we were defrosting, we would never hear the end of it.
July 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The First Born has secretly been buying frozen fish. It's a secret because we grew up by the sea, but don't live there anymore, we like fish, but not over the counter stuff, and if our father found out about all the dishonor we were defrosting, we would never hear the end of it.
Every time I visit my parents I see this brush my father's had since his culinary school days. It's lost a good portion of its bristles, is supported by cardboard on both sides, and is almost the same age as the First Born (approx. 35ish years).
May 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Every time I visit my parents I see this brush my father's had since his culinary school days. It's lost a good portion of its bristles, is supported by cardboard on both sides, and is almost the same age as the First Born (approx. 35ish years).
Still traumatized by that one time in high school while waiting for the city bus, someone said, "It smells like the sun?" and everyone tried to find the source of the smell while I had to pretend it wasn't my pasty, sunscreen lathered self.
May 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Still traumatized by that one time in high school while waiting for the city bus, someone said, "It smells like the sun?" and everyone tried to find the source of the smell while I had to pretend it wasn't my pasty, sunscreen lathered self.
So this happened (ﾟﾛﾟﾉ)ﾉ
Thankful to the Los Angeles Review folks for trusting this piece and helping me shape it into its final form.
losangelesreview.org/approaching-...
Thankful to the Los Angeles Review folks for trusting this piece and helping me shape it into its final form.
losangelesreview.org/approaching-...
Approaching Day Zero by Tara Manshon - The Los Angeles Review
She remembered the rain, how it used to beat down on their windows, a gentle drumming easing her to sleep. When last did they have rain? Now it seemed imagined, as if she’d dreamed it up in a fit of m...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
So this happened (ﾟﾛﾟﾉ)ﾉ
Thankful to the Los Angeles Review folks for trusting this piece and helping me shape it into its final form.
losangelesreview.org/approaching-...
Thankful to the Los Angeles Review folks for trusting this piece and helping me shape it into its final form.
losangelesreview.org/approaching-...
Maybe the reason girls do that gross thing where they drop their hair everywhere is because they're subconsciously leaving behind evidence they were there, in case they ever go missing.
April 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Maybe the reason girls do that gross thing where they drop their hair everywhere is because they're subconsciously leaving behind evidence they were there, in case they ever go missing.
Creating wax seals for my characters and it's down to the last two, but I got distracted by silk moths and how cute and fluffy and totally domesticated they are and did you know silk moths have lost the ability to fly after years of being bred and also when will the internet stop internetting me?
April 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Creating wax seals for my characters and it's down to the last two, but I got distracted by silk moths and how cute and fluffy and totally domesticated they are and did you know silk moths have lost the ability to fly after years of being bred and also when will the internet stop internetting me?
Just drank pickled beet juice from the jar because that's where I'm at right now.
April 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Just drank pickled beet juice from the jar because that's where I'm at right now.
Remember when we thought The Matrix was wild?
April 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Remember when we thought The Matrix was wild?
Why sleep when you can make 2am dumplings? It's not ~depression~ or OCD, but "research for a story."
April 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Why sleep when you can make 2am dumplings? It's not ~depression~ or OCD, but "research for a story."