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  • Muffin Wallopers: A Book Group for Gals
  • Still Playing Catch-Up with NetGalley!

    Here is another collections of books I have recently read, courtesy of NetGalley. *** Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce This book… Read more.

  • Wild Geese by Theodora Goss

    The cries of the wild geese are spring,are returningwarmth and growth and light,are the promise of apples ripening on the branchand crickets singing in the… Read more.

  • Who Are You And Whom Do You Love? by Bhanu Kapil

    I first read Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers in college and I was absolutely enthralled. This was poetry I had never seen before,… Read more.

This is the Mask

This is the mask.
My mask.
It hides my scars: The scared girl I was.
The scared woman I am.
The seeker that never finds what she is looking for and wonders if she is even worthy to know.
This is the mask.
My mask.
It lets me pretend
It lets me believe
It lets me feel strong, look strong, be strong.
Until I take it off.

~Nicole Kapise Perkins

“Words made faerie tales.”

— le thi diem thuy

Posts

  • Still Playing Catch-Up with NetGalley!

    Apr 24, 2026
  • Wild Geese by Theodora Goss

    Apr 23, 2026
  • Who Are You And Whom Do You Love? by Bhanu Kapil

    Apr 22, 2026

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