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NPM21 Blog: all this out of spite by jaye simpson
There are mornings when I wake up and can’t seem to locate myself. I am in a different bedroom in a different house, on a couch, in the backseat of a car, hurtling through time and space. When I finally grab at the fraying edges of this, I crash into my humble apartment in East…
NPM21 Blog: The Various Stages of Disbelief: Surviving Lockdown as an Introvert Without (Completely) Losing Your Mind by Liana Cusmano
For those of us who are introverts, the prohibition of large social gatherings will not have affected us as much as it does our more extraverted counterparts. However, those of us who live alone quickly found ourselves trapped in the feedback loop of our own thoughts, stir crazy and cabin fevered, with ample time to…
NPM21 Blog: Dear Fear by Amoya Ree
Dear Fear,where the hell did you come from?See at first I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me you know like those things they tell you when your 3“it’s just your imagination” “stop complaining”“be a big girl”Be like… my mother?with her skin like freshly brewed iced tea, and just as coldwith her…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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