Mrs. Dalloway's Coffee Break

Somnambulant espionage, the everyday kind that goes on in houses; it went on. A shadow. They saw a shadow, the doctors did, and they took her away into the pines. The Lung Unit in the pines outside the city proper, in the pines because they have a good reputation as respiratory helpers and these historical pulmonary blooms may go, they just may go away. Look, there is mother now, on the balcony, can you see her, she is there, on the balcony! Wave, wave to mother! Every Sunday. The child then getting her own heavy machinery X-Ray, hoisted up on a bench because she is so little still, and no one spoke at all it was serious, because they had seen a shadow inside mother. A shadow was like a ghost, or when behind the Christmas tree there was a dark spot without decorations. See, little one, there she is, on the balcony, waving! Let’s wave back to mother! A Shadow. With the shadow gone, she later worked at Helios and when things were slow she would bring the little one to have he...

  One still needs to gear up to come sit on the balcony in July; I don’t recall when it was last this cold for this long in the summer. The soil is so soft and wet from the constant rain the county worker’s lawnmower leaves large trails of brown on the green, as if the entire vast lawn is suddenly striped. I was given some hard advice about you. I have always been headstrong, but the advice I got has given me pause. The worst damage from the storm was the age-old aspen ripped from the ground in one fell swoop, with the roots now exposed and an enormous chunk of soil still attached to them, with the majority of the tree now in Lake Pyhä. The sight was simultaneously devastating and magnificent. The littlest damage was my scarf leaving my hiking provisions bag unobserved as I was down there on my walk, my smoky pink silk scarf, I loved it so. A token tribute to the gods of weather, most likely also now in Lake Pyhä, since I followed loosely the bike trail, that is my hike now...

Interiors. Out of everything wonderful life had to offer, interiors. But not just; The Hanging Rock and the pathways that are starting to loosen their grip on me. The sorcery is fading. I get out of bed and immediately almost faint. Sudden change in blood pressure, vertigo, lack of human touch, brain tumor, who knows. Cooing doves in the morning, and the sound is conspiratorial and homey. This view. The newspaper articles are about war, or cutting funding, or killings, or maga propaganda, and as if these were not enough, the science section tells me how studies have shown that women whose bodies go into early menopause tend to lose their synaptic activity in the brain sooner and more often than those whose period continue into their fifties, resulting in catastrophic cognitive problems, with Alzheimer’s looming at the darkest end of the spectrum. Also, that persistent nightmares reduce lifespan, and those who tend to have bad dreams often are bound to die sooner with 70% accura...

1. It’s who you know. 2. Dismissal has as often to do with fringe factors as not having the right face. 3. Pick a lane, but not any lane. Pick one that thrills the right sort of audience, deals with the right political agenda, and/or trending ideas, i.e. in writing, against the current, but not too much so to not make people uncomfortable about the wrong things; in pageantry, with the current, since those in power can snap you like a twig. 4. Ostracizing becomes a relay sport, kind of like in high school. NOTE: Major difference: pageantry; the panel will give more favorable reviews if bosom buddies and late-night calls to hotel rooms; literature; being too close to gatekeeping professionals leads automatically to near-invisibility and being left to own devices. 5. Devices are all one has. One has better learn how to use them.  6. If anybody is ever rude to you - sneeze muffin.* 7. The swimsuit round is the definitive round. A year ago, I applied, at my publisher’s request, and his ...

Since the honorable Mr. Reeves is taking the Internet by what appears not a mere storm, but a hurricane, and the moment just a couple of weeks ago, when he replied to an overwhelmed fan’s breathless declaration with an even more breathtaking response has gone viral, I think just the one piece on the man about the John Wick franchise found below is simply not enough. Now I know every girl in town likes to think she is Keanu Reeves’ number one fan, and I am entering the competition at an awkward stage, right in between the aftershocks of the huge blow that was the Cyberpunk 2077 press conference, the release of Toy Story 4, John Wick 3 playing in theaters, and the success of Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe, but here goes anyway. The title of this story is a bit misleading, since ever since Keanu Reeves started getting bigger roles on screen he has been showered with attention. Though not always complementary on his acting skills - I myself remember a huge cover story in Suosikki...