Inspiring the Works of Valerie Jean
Romance for Real Life
I started writing because I was afraid of how easily thoughts would disappear. Not the important—but the small ones. How light shifts when I leave a room. The sound of a page turning in the night.
Small observations. They don’t ask to be understood. Only to be recorded and maybe read, slowly.
— Lucía M.
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≻: Everything is fine
How many times in a lifeCan I use that line?Can I pretend and hallucinateThat everything will be fine?Before I realize the lieSpoken over and over…
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≻: Don’t Think While I Overthink
I try not to think Of who I could have been If I’d been left to my own thoughts Instead of turned over to robots.…
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≻: Unpacking a backpack
The backpack from the pastHid in a corner til at long lastShe purged it from her roomLike a memory she’d rather remove.But it was a…
Inspiring the Works of Valerie Jean 