Selected work
Essays, articles, and short fiction from V-Prez Writings. Each piece begins with a question and leaves room for your own answer.
Essay
Spring 2026
On memory, ordinary rituals, and the quiet work of becoming someone new.
There are objects that outlive their usefulness and still insist on being kept: a ticket stub, a chipped mug, the key to a door that no longer opens. We call it sentiment, but perhaps it is simply evidence that we were here.
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Article
Winter 2026
Notes on noticing what the fast scroll asks us to miss.
Attention is not a resource to be spent. It is a practice, a way of returning to the world with enough patience to let it become strange again.
Originally published in
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Fiction
Autumn 2025
A short story about a missed connection and the city that keeps moving.
By the time the last train sighed into the station, she had rehearsed three versions of goodbye and believed none of them. The city kept its lights on anyway.
Originally published in
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Essay
Summer 2025
A reflection on solitude, home, and the places that teach us how to listen.
A room becomes a refuge not because it is quiet, but because it gives your thoughts somewhere to land without asking them to perform.
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Article
Spring 2025
Why the notes beside the main story often tell us the most.
The margin is where certainty loosens its collar. It is where a reader can answer back, and where a story remembers it has more than one direction.
Originally published in
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Fiction
Winter 2025
A short piece about departure, tenderness, and the forecast we carry with us.
The forecast said clear skies, but leaving has never been a weather event. It is a private climate, changing by the hour.
Originally published in
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