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Master book of bubbles and ecloes. Every bubble holds a piece of thought, a whisper of feeling, or an echo of memory. This master book gathers them all-poems, reflections, sparks of imagination-floating between silence and voice. Some drift softly, others burst in color, but each leaves ripples behind. Welcome to the ｡Bubble｡ Universe, where words rise, echo, and linger. Bilingual, English + Arabic

A written exploration of the liminal space we inhabit from birth to death. A reflective exploration of one woman's experience of what it is to be human, in a not so humane world.

Genre: Non-Fiction / Memoir / Personal Essays / Emotional Health You see the curated life. I lived the real one. This is not a story about a character; this is a brutally honest, page-by-page look into the heart of the author. For years, I perfected the art of appearing mature and unbothered. I learned to bottle up my true emotions-my frustrations, my heartbreaks, my quiet joys-believing that silence was protection. But holding it all in only created a desperate hunger to be truly seen. Through these essays, I revisit the moments I dared to be vulnerable, only to have my experiences dismissed, invalidated, and compared to the pain of others. From friendships that crumbled under pressure to quiet moments of devastating self-doubt, each chapter is a confession of the raw, messy truth I was too afraid to share out loud. This book is a journey through the moments that taught me the hard way: that when you're told your feelings are "too sensitive" or "minor," you learn to swallow the tears and keep the silence. If you've ever felt unheard, misunderstood, or simply wrong for feeling exactly what you felt, this is your permission slip to stop holding your breath.

This covers short reflections on life. Life, as it is, is full of regrets, lost hopes, sadness, grief but life is also filled with happiness, hope and love. Life is the path that we must take, an action that we must do. More than anything else, it makes you,you, it makes me,me. Reflections, more than anything else, help us get past our regrets.

This isn't fiction and it isn't advice. It's a collection of moments and places-written while I'm still living them.

My youth was in green. Green trees, grass-stained kneecaps, frogs in the summertime. It's a strange time to look back on. It begs for nostalgia but keeps itself distant from the present. Reminiscing often feels otherworldly, as if someone else lived through your memories and you can only watch them fade into the past. Here are some essays and prose poems reflecting on childhood memories and exploring personal growth.

This is a collection of essays or personal thoughts I have written about.

Deep Thoughts, Layered & Real Words Here is the deep. Layered poems and personal essays - the long, steady inhale before the week carries us away. Contains: English + Arabic

Tales from a girl with writer's block. also, Letters to people. and Essays. well basically, just random stuff and probably short stories. Yeah that's all. (THIS IS NOW BASICALLY MY PUBLIC DIARY) lol I don't know but I love writing personal stuff on here, it feels safe & secure.

True stories about my life and making sense of it all. Learning about what to do after I've failed and weathered tragedy after tragedy.

In 2024, I left the Philippines for California, carrying credentials, fifteen years of teaching, and the expectation that my life would continue more or less where it left off. It didn't. We'll See What Grows is a collection of eleven essays about what happens in the gap - between who you were and who you're becoming, between the place you left and the place that hasn't yet become home, between the faith that brought you here and the silence that followed. These essays are not about having answers. They are about learning to live without them: the meal that disappears in ten minutes without comment, the school gate where nobody knows your name, the father who wrote things down instead of speaking, whose diary is in a room you haven't been in since you left. This is not a devotional. It is not an immigrant success story. It is something quieter - the record of a man trying to take root in borrowed ground, one ordinary day at a time.

Help me know you better. Midweek curiosity calls. You choose, you vote and your vote matters.

People think heartbreak begins when someone leaves. Mine began much earlier. It began the day I started believing that if I loved someone enough, they would stay. This is not a love story. At least, not in the way people expect. It is a collection of memories, letters, and silent conversations between a boy and every version of himself that survived another goodbye. From the first girl he met in Class 11 to the one he almost built a future with, every chapter carries a different name but the same question: "What if loving someone isn't enough to make them stay?" Somewhere between losing people, losing a watch bought with his first earned money, losing pieces of himself in mountain towns and metro stations, he begins to understand that the hardest person to choose has always been himself. This book is for anyone who ever confused attention with forever, waited for messages that never came, and still woke up the next morning with a heart willing to love again. Because sometimes the greatest love story is not about finding someone. Sometimes it's about finally staying with yourself.

This book is a collection of my public meltdowns and moments of existential dread made into personal essays. Proceed with caution: Relatable Content.

Sparks That Can't Be Ignored This is where art meets art. A collection of my responses-poems, reflections, and unravelings-inspired by the work that moves me. These are not reviews; they are conversations. My heart's version of the same beautiful dream. This is an Echo. For full version of my work, visit: ✨🫧Open Soul Bubble To understand the mind behind these echoes: 🫧✨First Burst Book Forever Becoming Contains English and Arabic verses

My thoughts on Filipino cosmology. Books I'm reading. Craft lessons I'm learning. Questions I can't answer. What it means to be a keeper of stories. Raw. Unfiltered. Real.

A collection of short stories, poems, creative essays, and other writing. Fanfic and original pieces. Come take a walk in the woods with me :) { I've got tree-lined interiors, Where we can dine with the biosphere }

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fundamentals of Creative Writing is a marvelous textbook that combines useful technical advice on craft with beautiful practical examples in her own stories. Brainard's treatments of writerly voice and left brain/right brain theory as it connects to writing are among the best available in today's writing textbooks. Her story examples cover a variety of story types, techniques, points of view, and historical as well as contemporary topics and themes. This book will indeed help writing students write strong stories and improve their craft. Brava, Ms. Brainard. Copyright by Cecilia Brainard. All rights reserved.

lol the picture is me ik I'm ugly but I didnt feel like making a cover photo