seven degrees of a confession
i. you want the truth but not what i can offer to you. the thing in my pocket is something i have yet to name.… Read More »seven degrees of a confession
Tashia Maharani
AITA for burning my girlfriend (25F) alive?
Ambition gets into a fight with their girlfriend (25F) and goes to Reddit for solutions.
to the man who calls you whore in the bedroom & treats you like one outside of it
let me explain how nothing ever changes—the tides, sure—but tonight you’re unhooking your jaw, letting the half-choked noises fill up the car. the blue shade… Read More »to the man who calls you whore in the bedroom & treats you like one outside of it
in the closet
there is no other version of this story. i write about my heart and you swallow it like pomegranate seeds. i hold my tongue and… Read More »in the closet
and everyone is loved, somewhere in time
Art by Mary Pelc. In a world where two souls can be reborn in a thousand universes, two lovers navigated through memories and tried to… Read More »and everyone is loved, somewhere in time
an ode to hormonal pills
beauty is a vacancy i’m taking a CV back home. the kind that runs Monday mascara dry & dismisses worth with a late paycheck. maybe… Read More »an ode to hormonal pills
An artist’s love affair with Passion (spectacled by the seasons)
An artist’s correspondence to her affair named Passion. Each spectacled by the omniscient, everly-changing seasons.
Abandonment Issue
Revisiting the crannies and nooks of her childhood memories, she tries to revoke the life-binding fear of abandonment that looms over a decade of her life. This is a piece about youthful
hope—although trampled—and the kind of love it birthed after. Ironically, she writes it while still
being hopeful as ever.
“The Queen must Ride Alone”: Reconstructing Sexuality and Hysteria in Ari Aster’s Midsommar
Seemingly trippy with all of the flowers and festivals, Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) is actually a compelling critic on how a patriarchal society fractures women in their lives. In this piece, Tashia concerns on the way Midsommar, from an entirely different point of view, celebrates the most natural and primitive parts of the female existence herself.