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Christopher Lum

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…

3 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Christopher Lum

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…

2 min readOct 10, 2021

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Christopher Lum

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…

2 min readSep 18, 2021

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Christopher Lum

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…

2 min readAug 28, 2021

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Christopher Lum

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…

3 min readJun 6, 2021

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Christopher Lum

“You’re smoking again.”

“You’re drinking again.”

2 min readApr 1, 2021

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“You’re smoking again.”

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Christopher Lum

night drives

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

4 min readFeb 6, 2021

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Christopher Lum

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

1 min readJan 28, 2021

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Christopher Lum

Return to Sender

this is a letter;

2 min readJan 16, 2021

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Christopher Lum

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.

4 min readDec 10, 2020

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

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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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