Author: Exy Elliott Fable Mars
where we began
by EeFM 2024 our undoingbegan with a snapshot ofa hallway, our youngest at 3she awakens sinking trapped in the darkness between doorways Our voices repeat in cornersof the darkest momentsthat tore us intwo(+two +two +two +two ∞)a projection of our past lives –puppets createddecades ago A hallway that replacesmemories forsmoke, features for shadows one childfor a…
generational undoing
by EeFM 2024 I unfriended you at 3am.24 years and our little make-shift bond of words and screens and the truths we couldn’t say to anyone else: a tiny family of usThe unwavering belief in each other,As we navigated the depths of our prisonsThe inevitability of our existence The expanse of what could be filled…
on growing up
by EeFM 2023 Different feels like a freezing cold ocean Different feels like a sea that you’ve been bobbing in, sinking in treading water Where they say from their ships, “nothing is wrong with you! Just swim!” A lifetime of trying to build a raft semi-drowning Until one day- an iridescent shimmer comes into focus…
learning to be an adult at the end of the world
by EeFM 2023 Learning what it means to bean adult at the end of the world: : giving less of a fak embracing who I am with kindness realising I can attain more than I ever knew unpacking trauma doing what I can with the energy that I have finding out who I am, what…
night hunt
by EeFM – 2023 there is a dissolvingone that begins it seems at birth,that starts as a trickle, an itch,a stutter: a cold emptiness that forms on the inside and carves it’s way to your toes and your feet:sharp-pinpricks of vaporthat grow into headachesandseeping dreams the engulfing presence of The Nothing that forms and un-forms,an…