A broken tulip by Maaike

A broken tulip by Maaike

What is the colour of nostalgia?

The sun was stolen this morning.

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Maaike VanderMeer
Mar 13, 2025
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This morning, in my three-year-old nephew’s story, the sun was stolen and so the dump truck took a ball of fire into the sky, but he got lost – he got lost in the purple galaxy. My nephew waited, hands hovering, to know what happened next. At some point in every story, someone tries to solve a problem, and gets lost instead.

Some days, I want to comb the…

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