Tag: Daily Essay
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A Packed Week
While eating, one friend sent a photo from a Friday night gathering, and another shared a picture of a dinner prepared for her newly promoted husband. It didn’t look like she cooked it herself, but it seemed pretty convincing. If she had made it, it might not have looked as fancy. After finishing the macarons,…
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A Quaint Bookstore in Sydney
For the then-popular ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’, a review read, ‘Personally, I wouldn’t recommend it, but if curiosity from its fame gets the better of you, read it and decide.’ (Still, I wanted to buy it.)
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Even If It’s a Goblin’s Café…
Whenever we arrived and opened the car door, a cold breeze swept in, no matter the season. In a dreamlike state, I wandered out, entranced by the sound of the wind, and faced the stunning view of Gangneung and the East Sea. Even now, the memory can be as vivid as yesterday when I close…
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Coffee and Death Potion
In the break room of the building where I work, there’s a big Nespresso machine with two coffee outlets. As soon as I enter, shedding my jacket and hanging it carelessly on a chair, I find myself instinctively walking toward that machine, like it’s some kind of ritual. From the capsule tray next to the…
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Do Angels Really Exist?: OA
The main character, Prairie (OA), is blind and embarks on a journey to find her biological father after leaving her adoptive parents. But she ends up being kidnapped by a doctor named Hunter, who studies the afterlife. Along with four others, she’s held captive in an underground lab for seven years, living as a test…