Maria Lebada
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The alien is trapped in here (just like me)
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Cat really wished that that wasn’t true as she placed her forehead on the beige wall of the spaceship and yelled. The sound echoed down the dark corridor and then, like a frisbee, travelled back to her.
By Maria Lebada2 years ago in Fiction
A Love Letter to Summer
summer watching ice cubes melt into a homemade lemonade that tastes a bit too sour / washing your hair and then going out into the garden and letting it dry in the sun / the smell of freshly cut watermelon that you share with your friends / warm, crispy toast with olive oil, tomatoes and feta cheese / the laughter of your siblings as you sit around a bonfire, marshmallows roasting on a stick / standing on your tiptoes to reach the tallest branch of the cherry tree / opening the window before going to sleep and letting the fresh air wash all over you /
By Maria Lebada2 years ago in Poets
There is somebody else here
I moved into this apartment exactly one month ago. There are still boxes in the living room that I haven’t unpacked and I am still using plastic cutlery for dinner. I can’t bring myself to decorate the place, to buy everything else that I need to. I can’t even bring myself to take out the trash.
By Maria Lebada2 years ago in Fiction
- Top Story - December 2021
The day I stopped biting my tongueTop Story - December 2021
For the past two years and a half of my life (minus one year of interruption caused by the incident that we will not mention in this post) I have worked in the most chaotic, most infuriating and at times most fun industry that there is: the events industry. I started as just a regular waitress, then I moved onto being a senior waitress and now I finally rest comfortably in the role of an event coordinator: which means I get twice the responsibility and the stress for just a teeny tiny increase in salary.
By Maria Lebada2 years ago in Confessions
How the Hunger Games shaped a generation of young women
All right, let’s get something out of the way straight away: the fantasy world of the Hunger Games is not one that I (or anyone else in their sane mind) would like to live in. Unlike the worlds of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or Narnia, which, even though have their respective villains and glaring disadvantages, are worlds of wonder and magical, fun adventures, the world of the Hunger Games is one of brutality, sorrow and agony. While other fandoms would spend their time dreaming about getting their Hogwarts letter, or about finding a secret door at the back of their closet, or about an old wizard showing up on their doorstep to take them on an adventure, the Hunger Games fandom was more than ok with staying put and not experiencing any aspect of the fantasy world we loved so much.
By Maria Lebada3 years ago in Futurism
I started buying secondhand books to save money
I have been looking for an opportunity to share this story with everyone for a really long time but haven’t found one until now. This incident took place more than a year ago, in the midst of the first lockdown, when the entire world was still.
By Maria Lebada3 years ago in Journal
If The Notebook is your comfort movie, here are some titles for you
I spent all of my teenage years accepting the fact that most people like to publicly bash romantic movies, especially romantic comedies. I never questioned the reason why and I never tried to make an argument for liking them. I just took it as a fact that we’re not really supposed to like romantic movies, and if we do, then it must be one of our “guilty pleasures”.
By Maria Lebada3 years ago in Humans
The sky in Iasi
As I begin to write this, I can only hope that the current town that I get to call home will not get jealous. I moved to London almost three years ago. It had always been the dream for me. The town that every kid from East-Europe dreams of moving to one day. We grow up seeing pictures of Big Ben and the London Eye, of red telephone boxes and double-deckers. We consume stories of James Bond, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter and we try to get into the habit of drinking tea, even if we really don’t like it at first.
By Maria Lebada3 years ago in Wander