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XXIX. A Girl, A Taxi, A City.
Always arriving, never settled, she travels the city streets in a taxi, tracing the blur of lights and lives, searching for belonging in a world that pays her no mind.
Charlene Iris
Nov 23, 20257 min read
XXVIII. COMPLIANCE IS CARE™.
Orientation transcript for new Department recruits. Circulation restricted to clearance level 3 and above. A dystopian narrative presented as a transcript.
Charlene Iris
Oct 22, 20254 min read
XXV. The Men Who Built the Sky.
"They didn’t save me. Not in the way that word is usually meant. But they gave me back the morning. A reason to pull the blinds. To let the light in."
Charlene Iris
Aug 7, 20255 min read
XV. Don’t Watch Our Alien Movies.
The aliens came for insight. They left clinically depressed. A darkly funny monologue on observation, spectacle, and socks with Crocs.
Charlene Iris
Jul 6, 20253 min read
VII. The Woman at Union Station.
She turned back for me. Helped me carry what I couldn’t. A quiet kindness, in the chaos, that I’ll never forget.
Charlene Iris
Apr 9, 20254 min read
VI. The Tyranny of the Silver Lining.
What lining? Not every storm clears. Not every ache transforms. Sometimes, pain just stays. And that's not failure.
Charlene Iris
Apr 8, 20253 min read
IV. The Church of Self-Checkout.
A first date. A plate of fries. A spiral into the spiritual architecture of capitalism, tenderness, and credit limits.
Charlene Iris
Apr 3, 20255 min read
I. Respawn: A Post About Choosing to Play.
For anyone who’s ever wanted to quit the game entirely—and decided, against all odds, to press start again.
Charlene Iris
Mar 21, 20254 min read
Musings
Wander through the dusk-lit rooms of SomEpiphany.
A living archive: the tender, the tangled, the mildly ridiculous. Fragments of life that insisted on being remembered.
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