They crowned her before she could speak, then spent years tearing the crown from her head. Applause became a weapon, praise a leash, beauty a sentence she never agreed to serve. When the lights grew hotter and the questions sharper, she realized perfection was just another cage. So she did the unthinkable: she walked away from the mir…
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They turned her into content. A stranger’s face, ripped from context, passed around like a punchline no one thought could bleed. The laughs were loud; the damage…
He said it like a wound. Like the word itself had teeth. “Fire.” It stuck in my throat, in my clothes, in the spaces between us that…
Your veins don’t change for nothing. One day they’re barely there; the next, they’re bright ropes under your skin, pulsing after a shower, after a sprint, after…
Some stars don’t fade. They choose to disappear. She walked away at the height of her power, when every door was open and every camera was waiting….
You felt holy, then emptied. The kind of hollow that makes silence roar and every unread message feel like a sentence passed. You gave pieces of yourself…
You think your home is safe. You lock the door, pull it shut, and walk away, certain that nothing inside will move without you. But something does….