Tag: prose
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Year 4: Late Night Thoughts About Trauma & Time
Year 4 I was surprised when I opened my leather journal to find the last entry was from several months ago. More than halfway through 2024 and only a few pages have been filled since last December. It’s not an accurate reflection of logging my thoughts, of course, as I’ve been typing up weekly notes–many…
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“I’ve Never Been To Iceland”: A Piece of Prose About Living with PTSD In Your 20s
Hey guys! Bit of a depressing prose I wrote last night but I wanted to share (trigger warning for mention of sexual assault). For a really long time I’ve wondered how to capture what life with PTSD is like, more specifically, how it feels to navigate in your 20s. Spoiler alert: it’s kind of rough!…
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The First Chapter of Seventeen Times Around the Sun
A Brief History Below, you can find the first chapter of my book, Seventeen Times Around the Sun (or “STATS” as I often refer to it for ease). I started trying to write this book when I was still in high school with the intention of creating something representative of what adolescence actually felt like,…
A.C. Brooke 