Crushball

The Low, Malicious Hum

A short story about my childhood fear of flies

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July 29, 2022

family, fiction, lessons, personalanechdote, short story, youth

childhood, children, daughters, fiction, mothers, parenthood, personalanechdote, shortstories
When People Hate You, When You Hate People

Paranoia, misjudgement, jealousy, delusion, self-hatred, compulsion. Consider those things as inborn parts of yourself.

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July 22, 2022

acceptance, advice, creative non fiction, emotions, feelings, hope, judgement, lessons, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, values

adviceandcritic, carljung, compassion, creativenonfiction, feelings, god, hate, jealousy, kindness, nonfiction, Personal, projection, Psychology, reflection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered
A week of thoughts #3

Google is creating & selling souls, small hearts in British government, and Sri Lankan satisfaction

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July 15, 2022

artificialintelligence, Borisjohnson, conservatives, creative non fiction, judgement, London, resignation, socialmedia, thoughtcollections

AI, artificial intelligence, Borisjohnson, conservatives, creativenonfiction, Google, government, LaMDA, nonfiction, RishiSunak, SriLanka, SriLankanpresident, stories, thoughtcollections, thoughts
How to Feel Like Yourself

No, you have never felt like yourself before.

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July 8, 2022

creative non fiction, emotions, feelings, hope, lessons, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, values

adviceandcritic, creativenonfiction, discipline, earlybird, feelings, Feellikeyourself, Howtofeellikeyourself, nonfiction, peace, potential, thoughts
June: Sausage rolls, Suicide, Suicidal Plants.

Not reporting a theft could save a life, my mental health is no longer killing my plants.

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June 24, 2022

advice, costoflivingcrisis, creative non fiction, diary, hope, judgement, lessons, logic, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, socialmedia, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

alive, bedtimes, BrainTemple, costoflivingcrisis, creativenonfiction, earlystarts, greggs, houseplants, Mentalhealth, mistakenidentity, news, nonfiction, organisation, plants, prison, sausagerolls, suicide, theft, theguardian, thoughtcollections, vibes
Everyone’s a Critic: The Careless Commentator

If Drake and I and you and that guy over there were all releasing an equal amount of content, we’d all be a little kinder.

crushball

June 18, 2022

creative non fiction, critic, feelings, fomo, judgement, non-fiction, opinion, reflection, reviews, socialmedia, unfiltered, values

adviceandcritic, critic, drake, fomo, honestlynevermind, judgement, kind, nonfiction, opinion, socialmedia, thought, thoughtful
A week of thoughts #2

Strangers in the house and Gym culture (and clutching for straws)

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May 12, 2022

black, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, family, feelings, god, Grandma, lessons, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, untoldstories

creativenonfiction, family, god, gym, gymculture, nonfiction, personalanechdote, thoughtcollections, untoldstories, work
Being Tired Can Change Everything

Youtube, good exhaustion, child Q, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe/Annosheh Ashoori

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March 17, 2022

black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, journalism, London, non-fiction, opinion, Racism, reflection, tired, untoldstories, untoldstories, work

AnooshehAshoori, black, ChildQ, creativenonfiction, feelings, god, hope, London, NazaninZaghariRatcliffe, new, nonfiction, Personal, Racism, reflection, stories, thoughts, unfiltered, youtube
The Evolution of a January

Wailing about the self-destructive waterlogged first month of the year, and learning how to escape it

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January 31, 2022

acceptance, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, lessons, logic, non-fiction, opinion, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

acceptance, creativenonfiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, january, lessons, logic, newyear, nonfiction, opinion, perfection, reflection, resolutions, unfiltered, untoldstories, values
Stories from the 2021

I’m bloody tired

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December 31, 2021

acceptance, black, blackbritain, blackness, creative non fiction, diary, emotions, feelings, god, hope, lessons, newyear, non-fiction, personalanechdote, reflection, tired, unfiltered, untoldstories, values

2021, 2022, acceptance, black, Blackbrits, creativenonfiction, dreams, feelings, god, hope, lessons, life, newyear, newyearsresolutions, nonfiction, Personal, reflection, unfiltered, values