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Christopher Lum

Cold

Like with most of my memories from that period, this one is hazy, everchanging, and takes a different shape every time you examine it. And…

Feb 3, 2022

Feb 3, 2022

It’s Mendelssohn again.

The last wisps of smoke from your last cigarette spiral slowly upwards. You sip from a whisky glass before dropping it in the glass ashtray…

Oct 10, 2021

Oct 10, 2021

a great debt

If there had been lifetimes before this, tell me we were happier in those. Tell me we found a way out out of the smoke-filled room. Tell me…

Sep 18, 2021

Sep 18, 2021

Structure

We used to talk a lot about endings. How they rarely make sense, and how reality tends to truncate the story in places without rhyme or…

Aug 28, 2021

Aug 28, 2021

Of Wine and Graves

Which version of reality is this now? Because I feel like we’ve played this game before, and this is where the ennui has set in, and our…

Jun 6, 2021

Jun 6, 2021

“You’re smoking again.”

“You’re drinking again.”

Apr 1, 2021

“You’re smoking again.”

Apr 1, 2021

night drives

you can’t sleep again so we take your dad’s car for a joyride again

Feb 6, 2021

Feb 6, 2021

I don’t know why we keep doing this

you ask me to hold you but you smell of cheap booze and perfume you can’t afford

Jan 28, 2021

Jan 28, 2021

Return to Sender

this is a letter;

Jan 16, 2021

Jan 16, 2021

Back then, you always told me to live with the end in mind.

But if you asked me, I think you saw the end much closer than most people.

Dec 10, 2020

Back then, you always told me to live with the end in mind.

Dec 10, 2020

Christopher Lum

Christopher Lum

“And we are left to wonder, have we simply failed to find the answers to the questions that preoccupy us, or can they not be answered at all..?”

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