em

Joined January 2018

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Bio

I’m a writer, a storyteller, a lunatic. I imagine in a parallel universe I might be a caricaturist or a botanist or somewhere asleep on the moon — but here, I am a writer, turning moments into multiverses and making homes out of them.

Achievements (2)

Stories (105/0)

A Tracemarked Existence
Each family is its own brand. Built on morals - just try to make as many people smile as you can - and philosophies - there are two types of people in this world, Smiler. Followers and leaders - and values - 3, 2, 1, love you, bye, love you. When parents come together, CEO’s of their own empire, their stamp on the world is not a product, but a person. In ink and blood, in anguish and ambition, their child is trademarked by their genetics, their upbringing an 18 year long marketing campaign. And they cost as much, too.
By em28 days ago in Fiction
Top Story - October 2023
A Side Effect of Overthinking That Nobody Tells You AboutTop Story - October 2023
At 17-months old, I got diagnosed as an overthinker. No, really. Less than a year and half old, and I was already talking the talk, but I was too afraid to walk the walk without carrying my baby activity bouncer with me.
By em2 months ago in Psyche
Writing Down the Bones, The Flesh, The Blood, The Being
It occurred to me the other day that writing is not like anything else, ever. It’s like nothing else we’ve ever encountered as a species, and yet it’s the culmination of everything we’ve ever done, thought, accomplished, spanning all of human history.
By em2 months ago in Writers
I’m Sorry, But I Think Your Phone is the Worst Thing About You
Your phone’s in your hand again, isn’t it? What’s your background like? Somebody you love on there, I bet. A photo of a holiday maybe, or a celebrity. Perhaps a quote that inspires you. I like when we use our phone’s for good.
By em2 months ago in Chapters
How Writers Can Help People
Good and evil are not decided by the tool. Both Harry and Voldemort wield wands, but the power that they create are dramatically different. The tool, the medium, is a platform, a totem, wearing the face of those who use it.
By em3 months ago in Writers
The Kitten on The Wall in a Warzone
TW: animal cruelty. There’s a tiny being screaming for her life in Kherson, Ukraine. No bigger than palm-sized and clinging on for dear life to a damp crevice in a wall, a bright ginger kitten is seconds away from drowning in this darkening world.
By em3 months ago in Petlife
Top Story - September 2023
How to Move to a City You Don’t Want to Move toTop Story - September 2023
Three weeks ago, me and my soulmate moved home. Though sometimes it feels more like a wholesome Air BnB owned by somebody who has pinched all of our belongings and filled it with our existential innards, rather than “home.”
By em3 months ago in Motivation
The Huntress and the Enchanted Tome
I’d just killed a man, and I wore his remnants all over my huntress tunic. Shredded, as though his claws hadn’t been trying to kill me, too. Blood-soaked, both mine and his, as though we were tearing away our layers so that we could get to the soul, vulnerable and exposed, and slice it apart.
By em3 months ago in BookClub
I've Had Enough Now, I've Paid My Dues, I Want a Job I Care About - What is There Left to Lose?
Do you ever feel like all you're doing is working towards something, but that something is at the end of one of those spooky corridors that just keeps getting longer, further away, no matter how far down it you've ventured?
By em3 months ago in Motivation
Me and My Boyfriend Wrote a Story On The Spot — And Halfway Through I Cried
It was 18:17 on July 29th. We stood, me and Ben, in my mom’s kitchen, rigatoni pasta boiling beside us. And I was crying because I couldn’t poison the water supply.
By em4 months ago in Writers
Runner-Up Place in Ode to Ordinary Challenge
The Moment and Metre of Who We AreRunner-Up Place in Ode to Ordinary Challenge
Forget time and space and the foreverness of all, Move on from the speed in which an apple will fall, Switch off the observatories chasing light from the past,
By em4 months ago in Poets
Top Story - July 2023
From Astrophysics to OCD: The Role of Space in My LifeTop Story - July 2023
Ace, isn’t it? Space. It’s in the name. But it’s no spa. I’ve got a degree in it. And a mental health issue that tore open wormholes within it. And people I love scattered all throughout and transcending it. But if you ask me what space is, I couldn’t tell you, because it’s not really even a thing.
By em4 months ago in Motivation

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Stories (105/0)

A Tracemarked Existence

A Side Effect of Overthinking That Nobody Tells You AboutTop Story - October 2023

Writing Down the Bones, The Flesh, The Blood, The Being

I’m Sorry, But I Think Your Phone is the Worst Thing About You

How Writers Can Help People

The Kitten on The Wall in a Warzone

How to Move to a City You Don’t Want to Move toTop Story - September 2023

The Huntress and the Enchanted Tome

I've Had Enough Now, I've Paid My Dues, I Want a Job I Care About - What is There Left to Lose?

Me and My Boyfriend Wrote a Story On The Spot — And Halfway Through I Cried

The Moment and Metre of Who We AreRunner-Up Place in Ode to Ordinary Challenge

From Astrophysics to OCD: The Role of Space in My LifeTop Story - July 2023

Achievements (2)