llike alike a cheap slave to a salt trader,
tike a keeper and master of snakes,
po a ring of good-for-nothing fools,
wanes of glass, like a guy who sells wet chickpeas
yho trades yellow matches for broken
aou're like a peddler operating outside the city
cocky family slave,
Your neighbour just installed aircon ledge netting. Smart move. Because when one ledge gets protected โ pigeons don't disappear. They just move next door. To YOUR ledge. First one scout. Then the whole flock.
WIriting past the 7k mark has been a struggle against my phone. It heats up an exorbitant amount, it lags like crazy, and backspacing is a goddamn nightmare. have been deep in the trenches of writing a Hualian parenting fic that is currently standing at 17k word count.
Success is built in the moments when nobody is keeping score. The extra hour of learning, the disciplined choice to stay focused, the decision to keep going when it would be easier to stopโthose moments may seem small, but they shape the future in powerful ways.
Via screens, traffic-signals, displays on appliances, and dashboards in vehicles, many of us spend the majority of our lives being led around by artificial lights. The will-o'-the-wisp has evolved.