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DESERT FANTASY by CVR, April 2026

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Can you tell I've been reading a lot of Siken recently? I feel like you can tell in this one...hahaha. Anyways, Desert Fantasy, to me, is the fantasy of someone saving you from yourself, yet the fear that'll hurt them in the end. The narrator in this case is literally just sleeping beside someone—someone they acknowledge is peaceful to be there—and yet they've constructed this whole narrative within their mind of being stranded, and craving help, but maybe their savior doesn't want to save, and maybe they'll never find that hope, and all this nigntmare their brain can come up with. Maybe they will beg in the morning. Who knows.

Mermaid Story tells the tale of 13-year-old Mana Chandler, and when she finds out exactly what makes her "different"—she's secretly part mermaid. She tries to deny it, but she has to grapple with trying to find joy in a world that doesn't give her joy back, or risking it all to live out her truth.

This one act is a love letter to poorly written female protagonists, the girls who played pretend much longer than they were supposed to, the kids you remember who died before graduation, and people who have been waiting for a queer story to end happily for a long, long time. This is for you.

Incredibly excited for the staged reading happening this June! Stay tuned for updates on this one act as well as my current poetry/short story project, There May Be a Purple Room in the Sky (and Other Theories about the Living and Dead).

The Liberation Front (There's Magic In It) by CVR, February 2026

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This poem means a lot of things to me. In its broadest form, this poem is to try and show people who have had to fight to be alive that you deserve love for every aspect of yourself—everything you hate, everything you adore, everything you are. It's named after one of my favorite poems, "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" by Wendell Berry, and the last line alludes to that as well.

If my poetry collection ever gets published, this would hopefully be within it. It also contains allusions to other stories within the collection I suppose you'll just have to read to find out about... :)

(and if I'm being honest. My idea of what Will Byers' coming out scene in Stranger Things season 5 is what actually inspired this. Oops.)

There May Be a Purple Room in the Sky by CVR, December 2025

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MY BEST FRIENDS ARE IN LOVE by CVR, July 2025

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This one is a bit silly, I know, but unfortunately, I have had the world's worst writer's block (you can tell by my incredibly consistent posting schedule!) and writing silly things helps me out of it. Regardless of how sort of simple this one is though, I've found myself really resonating with parts of it. What a dream it would be to be surrounded by love, and live in it, and never be expected to love how you don't want to. What a dream it would be to live horribly unconventionally, and happy, and free. I think it can be beautiful to live life for yourself, and with some friends along the way. :)

CONTENT WARNING: TEEN PREGNANCY, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND SELF HARM MENTIONS!

Get This Feeling Out of Me by CVR, May 2025

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This is not an experience I have ever had, but one of the stanzas suddenly came to me, and I just couldn't let it go. If you are ever struggling, know that you are not alone, and you never will be. Much love.

THE SOME-ODD PEOPLE YOU MEET WHEN YOU'RE INDEBTED by CVR, April 2025

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Looking back on it, this poem and my previous one have a lot in common. They don't have particular meaning to one situation; rather, it's more of just a little story. A story of someone trying to escape from a past that just won't seem to leave them alone. I don't have anything profound, but I hope you still like it.

Should I Still Feel the Fire? by CVR, April 2025

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I like writing from different perspectives. It's not a revolutionary thought by any means, but every person has such a unique story to tell, with beautifully complex individual moments that shape their mindset. I picture this is someone looking up from Hell, wondering what had led them there. They don't believe they're inherently bad, although they have done bad within their life. The ever existing bystander's dilemma still exists; sometimes, you do bad simply because it is all you know, but if you still do not put in the effort to change it, do you deserve forgiveness? Do you deserved to be saved? And by the time you already have to look up to see the life you once had, does it even matter?

We Write the Good Stories by CVR, February 2025

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I'm not religious, but I still do often wonder a question many have before me; if God is so loving, why is there grief? Why is there war? If God is so loving, why does hate surround us from every corner? While I don't have an answer, I was writing a short story when something hit me. My characters I make are my creations, and I put them through pain because of very simple and arbitrary reasons; sometimes I feel upset so I make one feel the same hurt, or sometimes I want to get a message across, or sometimes I just think it sounds, for lack of a better word, super cool. It helps me to put incomprehensible concepts into ones I understand. Maybe, God is a teenage girl plotting out her novels on school notebooks, although I realize it hurts a little more to be on the receiving end of that deal.

To Writing Poetry and Prose by CVR, May 2024

This is one of my favorite poems I've written. Losing my dad in August in 2023 has, and always will be, one of the hardest things I have ever gone through. When you lose someone, you end up seeing them in everything, and that materialized in me through my writing. It can be a blessing in disguise, however; the love I have for him will always be there.

Goodnight, Bella by CVR, December 2024

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SHIROMA by CVR, January 2025

A character study I did recently.