La Compos Mentis

📅 May 31, 2026

I remember a friend asking what wrong she’d done me. You put a period at the end of your text, she replied. This was way back in 2020....

📅 May 31, 2026

I saw a cigarette stub in the stairwell yesterday. For a second, I had a mix of want and nostalgia. I blinked, diverted my mind, and the urg...

📅 May 30, 2026

Sometime around July last year, I came back from a trip and walked into something not quite right. There was this… smell, like six si...

📅 April 26, 2026

I. First time you saw her was a Saturday, outside church. You were in purple joggers and she, well, you do not remember what she was in. Wh...

📅 April 18, 2026

I. You’re rich, bored, idle. You have no friends, you don’t do telly, and you don't fuck with social media. An idle mind is th...

📅 April 15, 2026

If you ask me how many books I’ve written, I’d tell you one. It has an unpronounceable name and sold like nine copies. I didn&rs...

📅 April 9, 2026

Nearly everyone carries something in their pockets. A lighter, some money, rolling papers, receipts, keys, old tickets, snack crumbs, a few...

📅 April 5, 2026

Agrippina was gone. Sextus was soon handled. Already weakened by illness, he was visited by Nero, who showed just the right amount of concer...