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Closing the Gap | Chapter 6: Wilting roses
I was both surprised and fascinated by how much my body was thawing back into life. And one can easily mistake that for falling in love.
Monica Nastase
Mar 12
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Closing the Gap | Chapter 5: Poems
I was eager to fabricate love through made-up romances and poems, to match the intensity of my imagination.
Monica Nastase
Feb 20
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Closing the Gap | Chapter 4: Prague
I was on a plane to a new destination every month, running to keep away from the painful knot in my stomach.
Monica Nastase
Jan 24
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Closing the Gap | Chapter 3: White
The fertility clinic was a cursed chapel where I buried my unborn children.
Monica Nastase
Jan 13
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Closing the Gap | Chapter 2: The elevator
All pain is invisible if you don't shout it out loud from your lungs.
Monica Nastase
Jan 2
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Closing the Gap | Chapter 1: Lunch break
That hot April day was the first time I found out what a panic attack felt like.
Monica Nastase
Dec 21, 2021
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Introducing: 'Closing the Gap', a serialized memoir
Why I am writing a serialized memoir and what you can expect to find in it.
Monica Nastase
Dec 15, 2021
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'The Girlfriend' — a Short Story
When an angry man tries to force love into his life.
Monica Nastase
Dec 7, 2021
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'The Pantry' — a Short Story
A newspaper ad changed the course of Isabella's afternoon and, maybe, her life.
Monica Nastase
Nov 28, 2021
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'The Sunday Lunch' — a Short Story
Feeling homeless despite having a home is a dangerous business.
Monica Nastase
Nov 15, 2021
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'Mismatched' — a Short Story
What is left of a woman’s identity when her marriage breaks apart?
Monica Nastase
Nov 5, 2021
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