healing
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After the Glitter: a short story
Vanessa Phan once ruled the quad in Guess jeans and glitter. Now she works at a dollar store in dusty California, haunted by old scars, lost love, and faded nights. Between cigarettes, daycare pickups, and a CNA brochure, she wonders: is reinvention still possible after peaking too soon? Continue reading
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Life Is for the Living: healing from grief & the fear of forgetting
A personal journal entry in which I grapple with guilt over the healing process from grieving my sister’s death, and my fear that moving on means forgetting. Continue reading
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emerging from the grief cocoon and into springtime
On the surface I seem to be getting by all right—I go to work, chitchat with my coworkers, wring my hands at meetings, and get things done. Then I come home, I make supper, I hang out and laugh with my husband and cat, and occasionally hang out with friends. The litter box is still Continue reading
Eden Onpeng 