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    Game Over, Try Again

    July 26, 2026 /No Comments

    My tolerance for the bullshit is wearing thin. The neighbor who is incapable of managing her emotions today felt the need to, in front of the council and the few attendees who had arrived by that time, show her true colors in public. How embarrassing… for her. 

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    Tales From Patient Zero

    July 13, 2026 /No Comments

    The demands of working through illness and being the source of spreading sickness.

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    The Ultimate Compliment

    July 11, 2026 /No Comments

    A neighbor's offhand compliment becomes proof I escaped my mother's script entirely. On being told you're nothing like the woman who raised you.

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    Dear Stupid Ass Neighbors,

    July 10, 2026 /No Comments

    A letter my neighbors will never read. About gossip, corruption, and the survival logic that outlives the war that made it. Turns out it sounds familiar.

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    Not the Captain

    July 9, 2026 /No Comments

    I took the council seat. I'm not taking the presidency too. On refusing to captain a ship full of people who'd rather go down with it.

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