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To What Could Have Been
The third issue of season 3 breaks down the process of having to walk away from something that was once picture perfect and choosing yourself instead
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Natalie

March 2024

I Bet My Soul On You And Lost
This week's newsletter questions all the beliefs one has held to be true thus far and searches for answers in unlikely places when they come under fire
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Nirmitee

February 2024

(miss)ives from tumblr, pop music lyrics and artists of yore
The first issue of season 3 is an ostensibly casual letter to someone the author decided to leave in the past except for her favourite things about them
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Nirmitee
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November 2022

'tis the (new) season calling for submissions
The Abandoned Dreams Collective is now accepting submissions for season 3 for the theme....
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Nirmitee

August 2022

The falling of Rome
Season two's last newsletter spins you around into the eye of a storm where your core instincts take over through the upheavals, yearning only for those…
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Nirmitee
The beauty in loving someone from a distance
Season 2's tenth newsletter drops you in the middle of a dense forest grown from the seeds of all your choices, urging you to find your own way out to…
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Nirmitee
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The Highways of Oklahoma
Season two's ninth newsletter paints a picture of the sparse landscape you're left in when you lose someone and grief takes over
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Nirmitee
Coffee cups and other disasters
Season two's eighth newsletter leads you into a dance of of quick witticism and banter hiding a longing that's hard to define, even to yourself
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Nirmitee

July 2022

Wrestling: a tale of cowboys, cults and failure
Season two's seventh newsletter draws you in with a story of lights, sounds and spandex but keeps you there with a tale previously untold of tragic…
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Nirmitee
First love/Last infatuation
Season two's sixth newsletter immerses you in the rush of surprise, wonder, delight, fear and despair brought about by an unexpected encounter that had…
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Nirmitee
A grief no one talks about
Season two's fifth newsletter cuts too deep in all the ways that you wish you didn't have to confront before bringing you home
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Nirmitee
Room 205
Season 2's fourth newsletter places you in the middle of multiple tugs of war - what you'd wanted and what transpired, whether to amble on or change…
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Nirmitee
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