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Humor & Chaos

Where ridiculous meets relatable. This category is a home for life’s messiest moments—told with wit, sarcasm, and just enough unhinged energy to keep things interesting.

It’s 8:06 AM and the first of 7 alarms starts ringing. Last night’s bedtime fairytale is supposed to be today’s plan. The version of me who set the infinite alarms? A delusional optimist who believes in beautiful lies. 

Naturally, in the back of our minds we know deep down that we have to get up early, that we must be...

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... A bed isn’t just furniture, it’s a horizontal cushion indented with the weight of our dreams and despair. A place of shelter, comfort, and occasional late-night therapy. It’s also a graveyard of crumbs, tears, and after-hours confessions.  The truth is...

Generally speaking, psychopaths are normal people. Too normal, if you ask me. They walk the streets amongst us. They drive to work. They go grocery shopping. They even floss their teeth at night. They do all the standard human activities. Nothing extraordinary—except for one thing...

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A sharp, soulful meditation on the modern To-Do list.

...They’re tricky though, those To-Do lists. We tend to make them in all sorts of different forms: a mental list, a written list, a list on our phone, a list on our laptop, a list in our new planner book, magnetized on our fridge, hung in our car’s rear view mirror, attached to our keychain. The point is that we have this so-called To-Do list somewhere... 

Living on Your Own

...Imagine you’re laying in your bed and you hear a noise from another ZIP code, yet somehow it feels as if it’s coming right from the inside of your house. In the unexpected anticipation you prop your body halfway up, face frozen, eyes bulging out and blood rushing to parts of... 

living in a house alone. humor writing. short story.
Image by Alexandru Ant

...in those strange seven minutes your mind conjures up the most chaotic and confusing dream ever.

The characters of your dream are as follows: your ex partner was there. Your brother was standing in a corner—possibly swaying. Your most awkward coworker was abnormally outgoing... 

Ever browsed job postings for fun, only to spiral into a pit of existential despair? Some jobs sound fantastic—until you reach the “required experience” section and it leaves you breathless—the bad kind of shock and awe. 

Unsurprisingly, boomers—80 to 90 million-year-olds—are still clogging up the job market; they’re...

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now versus later writing personal essay

The day is Monday. All hopes have been suffocated and all dreams have been withering. The sentiment in the air feels eerie. The mood is depressing and all the overdue tasks have been piling up... Then this urge and sensation that takes over your mind and body... 

everyday battles, exaggerated to glorious chaos

... let me introduce you to my daily dose of theatrical performance brought to you by my Cast of Characters. They’re fun. They’re brave. They keep me on my toes—Fair warning: some might be slightly exaggerated. The rest are walking lawsuits waiting to happen...

Image by Minnie Zhou

Night befalls you; you're physically exhausted, mentally drained, emotionally all cried out, psychologically messed up, physiologically done with the world and internally Just want to go to sleep for good... 

Image by Mohd Zuber saifi
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