Lori A. A.
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Psychological analysis | Identity & human behavior | Reflection over sensationalism
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I Collected Random Pictures From the Internet — And They Said More About Us Than I Expected
Sometimes the internet gives more than memes. It gives mirrors. Today, I scrolled. I clicked. I paused at a handful of random images that grabbed my attention. Some are riddles. Some are illusions. Some are questions that feel simple, until you think about them over again.
By Lori A. A.20 days ago in Humans
ELIAS!
At eighty, Elias discovered that silence weighs heavily sometimes. It weighs on the chest. It fills every room. It lingers long after footsteps should have come back. Silence, he realized too late, isn’t just the absence of sound. It is everything that never returned.
By Lori A. A.25 days ago in Fiction
The Rules That Kept the House Quiet
I didn’t know about the rules at first. I only noticed that she moved through motherhood like someone walking across ice: slow, deliberate, always listening for cracks. She was careful, but it didn’t look gentle. Her carefulness felt more like holding something in.
By Lori A. A.2 months ago in Fiction
3:17 A.M.
No one noticed the pattern at first. People rarely question a notification that wakes them in the middle of the night. They swipe, squint at the screen, maybe curse softly, then roll over and forget. That’s what made it work. That’s why it spread so quickly.
By Lori A. A.2 months ago in Fiction
Draft with Revisions
My father told me what life was. You go to school. You get a job. You earn money. You retire. My father didn’t offer this as advice, no. He described it as routine, a set way of doing things that had worked before. Years of hardship, repetition, and caution shaped this path. There was no room for discussion. I never questioned it because that seemed pointless, even wasteful, and waste was not allowed in that system.
By Lori A. A.2 months ago in Fiction
