Empress Indignant

Inspired by true events

To the Midsommar extra who crashed my wedding

Wedding planning is the end of all things good. But you do it anyway because… YOLO? You decide to have it overseas because you’re a...

Sunrise

I’m not sure where I end and the rest of the city begins. Today I watched the sun leak into Athens, cleansing and pretending that we’d...

Precise Between

And once you’ve finished drying yourself out, take stock of what truths you find yourself shouting to strangers in bathrooms hoping that...

Coop

I left the kind of wedding that made you want to get married. Oaks, live witnesses to promises you were sure they'd keep. Car ride home...

the boy with three houses

Did you think I forgot you? Velvet hands and lifts in your shoes. Took the invitation to your house upstate where I worried we'd split...

Pomegranate

In my dream you showed up out of nowhere, pomegranate in December. You were sweet and ready, like you weren’t before. The last time I saw...

αυτοκράτειρα αγανακτισμένη

1993

Just tell the story again, of the sparrows who flew from falling Rome, their blazed wings.

-Ocean Vuong

Los Angeles, CA