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The astral audience
March 18, 2023
There are certain moments that I’ll always remember. Joanne and Francis stopped by our 50-square-meter apartment on Rue de Wattignies. We had orange walls in...
kintsugi
December 10, 2022
“It's like sugar,” I told a friend earlier in the day. “It’s unhealthy and addictive. If you eat it every day,once you stop, there is withdrawal.”Of course,...
a whisper in a wind tunnel
August 28, 2022
Part I - The Great Abyss All that constitutes life is an individual’s illusion. In an instant, time stretches into infinitude and the illusion called life...
the heiress of nothing
July 22, 2022
The weather was pure shit. It was one of those rainy Parisian winter days, with unforgiving winds that occasionally slap you in the face. Ruthless...
Seize the Day
June 16, 2022
Yesterday, I haggled with a woman in the 16th arrondissement about the acquisition of a jade “gua sha.” Clearly she’s running a racket. Out of the blue, she...
La robe (en français)
November 18, 2021
Je viens de jeter une robe. Correction : je viens de poser une robe dans un point de collecte d’Emmaüs, situé au coin d’un bloc près de chez moi. Je suis...
A short poem
September 8, 2021
you cannot tether a free spirityou cannot saddle a wind horseyou don’t have to tell me darlingchasing el sol beatswatching the seasonsbutwhen sprouts...
The incubi among us
August 29, 2021
A few months ago, an old friend of mine, Jenn, forwarded me the contact of a French exorcist who lives near the Spanish border and performs exorcisms on...
Foiled First Encounters
July 9, 2021
“Séraphine” is my “nom d’artist” wrote Pauline. I waited at the entrance of the Jardin de Luxembourg and stared absent-mindedly at a large pine tree. “Je...
June
June 22, 2021
Ugh, June. The way you kidnapped Spring. I only have so many Springs left, and you came and smothered this one in a sticky summer soup. I overdressed at...
The return to normal
May 19, 2021
Early this morning, my grandfather visited me in the form of a heron. I'm pretty convinced it was him: I've never seen a heron around here before. I never...