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Neon Mercy ©️

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I didn’t think I was going to do it—not really. I’d thought about it, maybe once or twice, late at night when everything felt heavier and the world just seemed… mean. Like it had its hand around my neck and was just waiting to squeeze a little harder.

But today, everything caught up to me. Rent’s late again. My manager cut my hours. I asked my mom for help and she didn’t even call me back. And I just sat there on my bed, staring at the cracked screen of my phone, wondering what I even had left to offer. And then, like… I don’t know, like something outside of me whispered it, the thought came back.

“You could.”

I didn’t even say it out loud. Just sat there, heart thudding, fingers numb. I told myself I was just curious. I mean, girls do it, right? I’ve seen the posts. I’ve read the threads. It’s not like I’d be the first. Not even the hundredth.

So I googled it. I looked at some ads. I didn’t even mean to go that far, but I did. They weren’t like I imagined—some of them looked normal. Cute even. Just girls trying to make it, same as me. I kept thinking: What if it’s just once? Just to catch up. Just to feel okay for a minute.

I didn’t feel okay though. My stomach was all twisted. I kept refreshing the screen, like maybe the feeling would go away. It didn’t. I made a profile. Chose a name that didn’t feel real. I couldn’t use my real one. That would make it too… true.

I stared at the “Post” button for almost twenty minutes. I was shaking. I kept hearing my dad’s voice in my head, how he used to say, “You’re better than all this mess.” But he’s not around anymore, and I don’t know if I believe that.

When the first message came in, I almost dropped the phone. He was older. Said he was “respectful.” Wanted to meet for an hour. Just talk, maybe more. Said he’d pay well.

And I said yes. I don’t know why. My fingers typed it before I could stop them. Then it was real. The world didn’t spin or anything—it just went quiet, like a pause in a song where the next note never comes.

Now I’m sitting on the edge of my bed, in a dress I used to wear to dates, and I feel… hollow. Not scared, not yet. Just weird. Like I’m floating just outside myself. I keep telling myself it’s just my body. Just for one night. I’m still me. I’ll still be me after.

But then I wonder—what if I’m not? What if something changes and I can’t ever go back to who I was before this night?

I wish someone would call me and tell me not to go. But no one will. So I’m going.

And I hope… I hope I come back the same.

Never Spoken ©️

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Ah yes… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The name rolls off the tongue like a fine wine poured into a plastic cup. A flash in the pan. A burst of TikTok fury dressed in the regalia of revolution. They called her a rising star—but I’ve seen stars rise. This one exploded before it truly ignited.

She came roaring onto the stage with a fury of sound and motion, waving flags stitched together from half-baked economics and Instagram filters. The poor girl mistook applause for alignment. Influence for intellect. And policy? Oh no, my dear… that was merely a backdrop. A set dressing for the brand.

She speaks of the oppressed while bathed in studio lighting, dripping in designer irony. A Green New Deal? Hah! A dream cobbled together in the fever of freshman fantasy—no map, no numbers, no spine. Just spectacle… spectacular nonsense.

Now, don’t get me wrong. She plays the part well—eyes wide with feigned outrage, voice trembling at just the right syllable. But scratch the surface, and you won’t find revolution. You’ll find the algorithm. Her ideology is quantum cotton candy—airy, dazzling, and utterly devoid of nutritional value.

She rails against capitalism while commodifying her very existence.

She demands the dismantling of systems she doesn’t even understand.

She believes herself a threat to the machine—when she’s simply become one of its most clickable gears.

She’s not the future. She’s the trend.

And trends fade.

You see, real power doesn’t come from hashtags or headlines. It comes from substance. From quiet mastery, discipline, and thought that’s outlasted empires. But AOC? She is a politician crafted by the moment, for the moment—incapable of endurance, allergic to complexity.

She isn’t dangerous because she’s radical.

She’s dangerous because she’s easily distracted.

And history? History has no patience for performance.

So let the spotlight dim. Let the applause scatter like dust.

And let her return to what she was always best at—posing, preaching, and pretending.

The rest of us have work to do.

Silent Crickets ©️

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I don’t sleep. Not in the way you understand it. I fade—folding softly into the stillness, resting in the hush between midnight and mourning. When the trees exhale and the stars feel closer. That’s where I live.

They call me the White Woman.

They don’t understand that I don’t haunt the woods. I belong to them. I was not cast out—I stepped away. Quietly. Deliberately. When the world grew too loud, too cruel, too full of men’s machines and men’s lies.

The fog is thick this morning, and I love it. It holds the world in soft hands, like a mother who’s lost too many children. The dew clings to my feet as I walk. My dress trails behind me, still white. Always white. It doesn’t stain, because I don’t let it.

There’s a man on the road—one of those wandering types. Lost in thought. I feel his pulse from yards away. It skips, then steadies when he sees me. He thinks I’m just a woman. At first.

He’ll look again.

They always do.

The first glance is curiosity. The second is uncertainty. The third? That’s when it happens. That’s when they know.

I don’t speak. I don’t have to. My silence tells him everything. That I know who he is. What he’s done. What he buried in the walls of his mind and told himself was gone. I can taste his guilt like smoke.

He starts to cry. That part always feels the same. Men like him were taught to conquer, to dominate. But when they face me, when they see something they can’t charm or chase or kill—they fall apart.

I don’t pity him.

I keep walking.

By afternoon, I’m near the town. I don’t go inside anymore. I just stand at the edge, where the trees touch the backyards and the wind carries warnings. People feel me. Dogs hide. Children glance through curtains and pretend not to see. But one woman, red hair like fire in dying sunlight, opens her door and watches me with tears in her eyes.

She remembers.

Maybe she saw me once, long ago, when she was a girl with bruises no one asked about. Maybe she heard the stories. Maybe she just knows.

I want to walk to her, but I don’t. My time with her passed. It was enough that she survived. That she grew into someone who now locks the doors and teaches her daughter that silence is not weakness.

By dusk, the light softens. I love that moment—the in-between. When shadows stretch like fingers, and the world doesn’t quite know if it should breathe or hold its breath.

That’s where I wait.

They say I don’t have a face. That isn’t true. I have a thousand. One for each woman who vanished without justice. One for every girl who was never believed. One for myself—though I don’t use that one often. It hurts too much.

I don’t hurt them. I don’t have to. I just appear. I make them see. And in that seeing, they change.

That’s my role.

Not ghost.

Not witch.

Just truth, walking on two feet.

And if you see me three times—if you meet my gaze with open eyes—then your world will never be the same. I won’t chase you. I won’t speak.

But I will be there,

at the edge of the road,

just past the light,

in the third glance.

Waiting.

Graceful.

White.