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Arch R

Arch R

Free therapy

“No, I mean it! No sex for a month,” I announce to my therapist. She is the fifth one I have cycled through in just as many months. My work…

Feb 19

Free therapy

Feb 19

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The questions you don’t have to answer

Year-end. The world is warm with festivity even as the winter chills blow through the northern hemisphere. Everyone is hopelessly jubilant…

Dec 26, 2021

The questions you don’t have to answer

Dec 26, 2021

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Open letter to my 18-year-old self

You have imagined yourself sometimes, away from this whitewashed North Carolina suburb, on a grimy New York Street, yellow cabs parting the…

Dec 10, 2021

Open letter to my 18-year-old self

Dec 10, 2021

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Black Friday Shopping

The stuff. The piles and piles of stuff. Six black t-shirts that fit ever so slightly different than the next. One goes with high-waisted…

Nov 30, 2021

Black Friday Shopping

Nov 30, 2021

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Do opposites attract?

It’s not that I believe opposites attract; it’s just that I think two people who are too similar are flammable. I can write the witness…

Nov 27, 2021

Do opposites attract?

Nov 27, 2021

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After “I Quit”

The foghorn bled into the air with its monotonous blare. The ships sat motionless in the water, or so it seemed from a great distance, like…

Nov 26, 2021

After “I Quit”

Nov 26, 2021

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Mirror Conversations

Hey you, yes you, the one in the mirror, yes, I’m talking to you. We’ve despised each other for so long. We need to sort this out. I know…

Oct 29, 2021

Mirror Conversations

Oct 29, 2021

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The Metamorphosis of Envy

I am not sure if envy is green. I see it more as a dull beige, the unexciting color that will never stand up for itself but carry other…

Sep 14, 2021

The Metamorphosis of Envy

Sep 14, 2021

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Somewhere in between

It was a sweltering morning like many, where my iced latte was the reprieve from the overbearing equatorial sun making its appearance…

Aug 23, 2021

Somewhere in between

Aug 23, 2021

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Anti-prodigal daughter

I’ve left home. I am now six thousand miles away from my parent’s grasp. My parents and their overbearing love which felt less like a…

May 30, 2021

Anti-prodigal daughter

May 30, 2021

Arch R

Arch R

I tell stories that help me unlearn things, and explore immigrant experiences outside white-centric lenses. In love with oddness.

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