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Dressing like Adam Sandler summer 👼🏼👼🏼👼🏼

IT’S OUR TIME TO SHINE, PEOPLE. 🗣️🗣️🗣️

I know my mother loves me, but sometimes I don’t think she will ever love anything more than her anger.

“Beauty Above Deadly Mist” by Soular Knight

(Backstory: This lovely art piece is my commission for a dear disabled friend…by another dear disabled friend! It is proudly displayed on the submission guidelines webpage for one said friend’s online disability magazine: FLARE Magazine! FLARE champions chronic illness, disabilities, and mental health. All contributors are disabled in some way!)

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Secrets of Adulthood: 2026 Edition

• DO HALF OF WHAT YOU THINK YOU CAN DO

• GIVE YOUR FULL ATTENTION TO YOUR CUP

OF TEA (via @feytouched)

• NOT AS I PLANNED, BUT AS I NEEDED

• ENJOY EACH SEASON IN ITS TURN

• READ VORACIOUSLY, WIDELY, DEEPLY, AND

FOR FUN (via @singing-bowl)

• MEMENTO MORI, MEMENTO VIVERE

• PRAY EVERY DAY

• CHOOSE AUTHENTICITY OVER FEAR OF

ABANDONMENT (via @werenotreallystrangers)

• AWAKEN THE POSSIBLE

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Secrets of Adulthood: Halfway Through 2026 Edition

• NEVER BETRAY GOD…EVEN FOR YOURSELF

• YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BE SAD AFTER MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION TOO

• TAKE UP SPACE

• GO TOUCH SOME GRASS

• PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO

• IT IS NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO “SHIFT” OTHER PEOPLE

• ABANDON LABELS

• ABANDON GOSSIP

• LET YOUR ACTIONS SPEAK YOUR VALUES

• BE WILLING TO “FAIL” FASTER

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Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. This chapbook is an autobiographical poetry collection about the author’s decade-l

From Makena Metz's chapbook, Through My Marrow, available from Bottlecap Press!

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More chronic illness + pain representation! I just finished reading it myself—and let me tell you, not only was it devastatingly relatable, it was well-written too! These topics can be so hard to breach at times…I’m grateful for Makena’s talents and strength! And I’m grateful she’s still here fighting the good fight with us! 💪🏻🩵

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🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.4 Spring 2026 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️ Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.4 Contributors:

Jennifer Badot

Rachael Bull

Polly Conway

Zoë Davis

Lisa Delan

Joe Ducato

Yoonji Huh

Mindy Kober

Katie Larson @iamktb14

DS Maolalai

Kiana McCrackin

EK Ottenritter

Kathleen Palmer

Nina Prater

Esther Sadoff

Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas

Thank you all! We are so grateful we get to make this with you! (opening soon for our First Anniversary Issue!)

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So honored to have my poem, “The Meristem,” featured in this @lamplitmag issue! Much love! 💙

My social media accounts finally have a header/banner, and it’s all thanks to Nanami! 💕

Please be sure to check out her Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and Etsy accounts below! She is so incredibly talented + kind! ✨

Instagram: art.bynanami

X: ArtByNanami_

Etsy: ByNanami

First contrapuntal poem attempt EVER in my life, and this is the outcome! Thoughts? 🤔

Imaginary Song Track Titles for a Mixtape I Will Never Write… 👀

1. Homebody

2. Solis + Luna

3. Meaner

4. Our Picnics in the Graveyard

5. Letter to God (2025)

6. The Devil’s Greatest Trick

7. Dandelion Wine

8. I Forgive You

9. Saint No One

10. “Swear Not By The Moon”

11. Tattoo Theory

12. Yellow

13. Maranatha!

This is the “Galentine’s Day” gift I handmade for a friend—constructed by me from sheets of copper with the guidance/assistance of my Metals instructor. The leaf on the stem is in the shape of a heart. ♥️

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Commit to yourself and God

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“All that is not God is death.”

– George MacDonald

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For Jasmine Ledesma (@candiedspit)

You are a spectacular. Upon the stage that curtains haven’t yet opened, the next great American is on any face: An intimidating little punk. A lucky wreck. An overtired baby. A tender-footed pedal-pusher. A rat eating its own tail. Even my bitter as nightshade mind. Yes, even a haunted house in bright California still schemes! And no friends but the ugly tilting off the edge could be swimming emancipated, anyway—a slash of defiant sick, trapped in fucking trips, the sun a fucking bathtub drain. But, angel, you’re not allowed to die…Hasten. Have license. Lose. A significant amount find it nearly impossible; find writing as difficult as praying. I wrote some scrapped confessional: “Praying is good begging, and I’m too proud. But you should accept help from anyone.” It’s something at least. Remember: When you’re famous—in due time—all the trouble it took to write this shitty didn’t love you like myself.

“Champagne and Chocolate” by Katie Larson

Happy Valentine’s Day! Remember to be the love you wish to see in the world today—and be sure to check out FLARE Magazine’s first EVER special issue—“Love to the Mind and Body”—HERE! 💘

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If you could make a speech to the personal embodiment of your “fear,” what would you say? What kind of deal would you try to strike? I am at a loss for words. 😢