Eliza Arkelyan
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"perhaps, somewhere, someday, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again."
- 19
- double major (Psychology and Fiction Writing)
- realistic fiction, magical realism, speculative fiction, poetry
Achievements (1)
Stories (2)
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Cloth Mother // Wire Mother
I am eight, you tell me not to paint my nails red, lest I look like a slut. I have long held the life philosophy that, when it comes to non-essential desires, people only want what they can’t have. But recently I have added a second life philosophy: no matter the relationship, no matter if she’s not in their life or not even alive, when faced with an unpleasant or unbearable situation that they are powerless to stop, people turn to their mother for comfort. There is some innate, hardwired desire within us all that still aches for a mother’s love, guidance, protection. Maybe I’m a genius, or maybe I just reinvented Harlow.
By Eliza Arkelyan4 years ago in Confessions
it's not my fault you sound like a Joan Mitchell painting. Runner-Up in Sensational Challenge.
I don’t know how to tell you this but in the nicest way possible your voice tastes like the end of the world. It’s the cutoff and the silence and the heartbeats and the timing-
By Eliza Arkelyan5 years ago in Poets
