Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Life

  • Celebrating New Beginnings: My Prose in O Mie de Semne

    Dear friends, I hope you’ve had a wonderful New Year’s celebration! I am happy to report that my year has started well: after a wonderful afternoon skiing in #Tirol (albeit with a cold), I received word that a short #prose I authored was picked up by O mie de semne, a Romanian #literary #magazine. Here…

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  • Farewell to 2024 / Haiku

    Farewell to 2024 / Haiku

    to your unlikely silences, your unavowed explosions of joy I listen. I am a boundless receptacle for your corrosive past, your buried pain, your ecstasies; my future secretive, unknown.

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  • Quote of the day

    Quote of the day

    “The way we use language to describe the Other is a large part of what gives that Other their humanity.” Toward Eternity – Anton Hur

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  • My 2024 Retrospective

    It’s that time of the year again: hot cocoa, mulled wine, and… retrospectives. You can read mine (in Romanian) here: https://atelier.liternet.ro/articol/49103/Andreea-Sepi/Drumuri-intre-acasa-si-acasa-sau-viata-ca-un-roller-coaster-2024.html. Or you can follow me on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube to see what I’ve been up to and to stay tuned for what I’m doing next! Keep an eye out for my next…

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  • Love Haikus

    Love Haikus

    speaking about love: do not delay cupping your hands to receive its miraculous snow, soft and calm; also do not delay showering it on someone else. what better things have you got to do in this world? the only thing worse than being unloved is having nobody to love. life is a glint of light…

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  • Feminist Haiku

    Feminist Haiku

    when you cannot choose, so you strive to be chosen: your name is woman.

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  • Election Haiku

    Election Haiku

    seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.

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  • You (Haiku)

    You (Haiku)

    it is a painful birth, voiding my soul of you; a stern confinement.

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  • Presence (another haiku)

    Presence (another haiku)

    two people can be quiet together only in person. presence is required for that exchange of silences called friendship, called love.

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  • Quotes of the day

    Quotes of the day

    “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks. “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. If we turn our mind toward the good, it is impossible that little by little the whole…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.” Emil Cioran – All Gall is Divided (1952)

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  • Quote of the day

    “Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own.” –…

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