Hooks + Books
Interests, passions, sports, authors, music
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Not by AI
Disclaimer: this piece is not written using AI (artificial intelligence). I can write this content. I know that I am…
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Perks of the chronically online
If you spend enough time on the internet, not just scrolling but really absorbing its strange rhythm, your brain eventually…
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2020’s return
To time travel is impossible and far-fetched. Not until I started hearing these sounds, which transported my consciousness back in…
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Is dreaming only for kids?
I was talking to a friend and blurted out a trendy joke—“Please, Please, Please” by Sabrina Carpenter— but changed Carpenter…
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To dream in a third-world country
To dream in a third-world country is to carry a weight heavier than our bodies were built for. Our dreams…
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Raised by roosters
My childhood mornings in Isabela began with the cry of roosters. For most people, it was just countryside background noise,…
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When dreams falter
It has been a year since I shifted my sablay onto my left shoulder. As we were cued to stand,…
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Years I lost in the haze
It was in 2021 when I first learned how to write. My mama prepared a table in our small garden,…
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An open letter to all ‘Bobbies’
Never the favorite, always forgotten. You are the best in everything, and yet, you are still number 2, option B,…
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