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Isabelle Palerma lives in the Midwest but fantasizes about running away to Florence, Italy someday. She’s been writing since she was seven, but fortunately, most of her early writing about talking dogs and dancing gumdrops have faded into obscurity.
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You wake up in a strange city in a stranger's bed. But that's not the weirdest part. You feel a fluttering in your pinkie, and when you look down, you see a tiny pair of wings. Read more at isabellepalerma.com/2025/02/21/a... for Part 1 of A Seraphic Metamorphosis. #writingcommunity #fiction

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Started a new novel tonight. One that's been on the back burner for too long. "Her name falls from your lips the moment you utter it the way the moon slips beneath the horizon, quietly, without notice. The story of the Orphan is like that game we played as children..." #WritingCommunity #Readers

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"I sicken myself with hunger./If this was a physical disease/my ribs would be visible through a sheath of skin." A few stanzas about loneliness, disguised as disordered eating. Let me know what you think. 💜 #poetry #poems #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

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I know the rules so I can break the rules.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

First words are difficult. You want to manage something witty and engaging. Something that expresses who you are. You want to lift the person away from where they are currently and bring them closer to you. It's daunting really, probably why most babies only manage monosyllabic "words". So, hi.

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments