Collection
A stiletto shoe
1966, six weeks, and 1998, a few hours
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
It was 1959, I was ten, T. was eleven. We were very much in love. When I told my mother we had gone skinny dipping in the canal, I got my ears boxed and was sent to spend the rest of the school holidays with an aunt. When I was fifteen, we had more wonderful times together until he moved to Germany with his parents. Our goodbye came with many tears and promises. We would write every week and ne...
Whole Foods
July 8th, 2025
Berkeley, United States
Of all the conversations we've had at this Whole Foods parking lot,
I never imagined that us as Whole would become a Hole in a split second.
That my Whole Love would become Whole Silence,
and my Whole Forever would become a Whole lotta Never.
And isn’t it wild — how a parking lot could hold so much
of what we promised to each other we would be, and now,
so much of what we’re not?
How, on that...
We didn't really date or meet
2020 - 2025
Brasil
We wrote fanfics together at the pandemic.
We didn't know each other since we only interacted on the internet, but we knew we were from very different parts of the country. I stopped writing fanfics and left the website with almost no warning. Later I found out she already loved me back then and this deeply hurt her.
In 2023 we started talking again now that we were in very different stages o...
The circus ain't a love story
20/01/2019
Québec City
Moved very, very briefly to Quebec City to give a chance to my first real, adult love of my early-twenties. It was messy, twisted, toxic even - but I wouldn't change a thing. We had sex and argued in equal measures. I don't think I could put up with another relationship with that level of intensity, but I am so happy it happened. I will forever hold this guy in my heart with the utmost respect ...