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''Seize the day' really fucked me up as a rule of thumb, growing up. My parents were strict when I was a teenager and whenever I was let out of the house for anything social, I would seize 'life' in a panic, not sure when my next chance would be. Carpe party, carpe sex, carpe Sambuca. As a fifteen-year-old I was having too much sex that felt like pain or like nothing; I was crying behind sheds at twenty-firsts and passing out under tables. When I had to stay home, which was often, FOMO made me feel physically sick. I felt like life was always happening without me.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks no. 113 Summer 2018 16829090 2018 periodical issue 'Last night I travelled across town to my friend’s house, which is also the headquarters of the riso press/comics publisher Glom Press, to help finish putting together the last two in a series of six comic books that Glom has been releasing this year. The days seem to have gotten longer really suddenly—it was still light out when I arrived, and, as everyone sat around carefully collating stacks of printed pages, two rainbows—one single and one double—were shining above the house.' (Mira Schlosberg, Editorial introduction) 2018 pg. 52-57
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