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Gabrielle Galchen

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Aug, 2019

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Ten Tips if School’s Making You Lose Your Mind (Life is Short)

Gabrielle Galchen

Submitted to Contest #264

1) Confirm whether you’re losing your mind ex) It’s 9:15 PM, but it was just 1:03. Or 1:04. Not too sure. I skipped lunch. My Finance textbook is big, fat, endless. Time keeps slipping away from me these days and I’m never sure where it’s going. I watch it like a cartoon character, with a big question mark lopsided above my head. I watch it with less clarity than when my dad forces me to watch college football. I would write a poem about this feeling, try to describe time like some sort of mouse that keeps skittering, or maybe like a su...

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Tints and Colors

Gabrielle Galchen

Submitted to Contest #99

Per usual, I am listening to Linkin Park. I am listening to their 2003 hit song “Breaking the Habit,” which I initially assumed was about some catharctic break-through yet is apparently about suicide. The theme makes sense in hindsight, considering that lead singer and lyricist Chester Bennington killed himself in 2017. Just like any artist, he wrote about himself, predicted his own grim future in some sort of twisted self-fulfilling prophecy.  The wind from the May clouds spews itself into my ears. My left-side earphone falls out. I...

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