Category: Stories & Poetry
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Then there were the plastic seats — back-to-back rows that discouraged comfort and punished optimism. I tried one once, briefly, before realising they were designed for people who had already given in.
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My camera had accidentally captured the twilight of Sezam.
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… she demanded: “Co tam takiego ciekawego do fotografowania?”
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Fledermausgauben lifting from the tiles,
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And yes, it features a possessed bicycle.
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… the kind of cake that makes you rethink your life choices.
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… when everything feels unfamiliar, and life in the city is both difficult and full of excitement, possibility, and challenge.
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“Don’t worry about them,” he said. “You live in their community now.”
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Plan B: to abandon the audio entirely and act out the dialogue on international business etiquette myself.
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But the flicking of peel, the laughter, the sense that I had no footing at all… that tipped me over. It wasn’t the fruit. It was the sudden realisation that every instinct I’d relied on for two decades was useless here.
