maggie zhu 🎀

Cheering for countries whose literatures I like most in the Olympic opening ceremony because that is the clear criterion of choice.

i'm probably not helping the cause of literacy by constantly telling my non-reading friends how evil writers are & that reading to build one's empathy is like gambling to build one's wealth

it hurts more than you'd think for a 4-lb kitten to leap onto your full & bloated stomach in order to attack your fingers

facebook marketplace is full of rare treasures for those with eyes to see

the scene at the end of Leben der Anderen but instead of dedicating the book to a Stasi spy it's dedicated to an anonymous Twitter shitposter

a picture of a rainbow colored snail done in oil pastels with a black background

my little party snail

neuroses (neurodivergent diocese)

racially ambiguous? i'm racially ambitious, i want to pass for every race

your experimental fiction doesn't cancel out your normie posts

when you get down to it, the problem with autofiction writers is they aren't bratty, they aren't shameless, they aren't entertaining. they're feeble. they're sat in a filthy gutter of their own creation and spend hundreds of pages acting like they don't know how they got there.

I’m going to be so fucking well-behaved on this beautiful new website!

the existence of german sinophiles is poetic justice

me, posting on this website? setting off a stink bomb under cloudless skies??

a baby still babbling at three years old is resisting the container of language, the linguistic capture of meaning over miracles, the glass cup over the house spider. baby knows this is the fight of her life, that words want to cover everything, tile a mosaic over the world. no light let through.

I want to knock every woman my age off her prim little perch

I keep picking up "relevant" novels and trying to read, feel obligated at least to try, but again and again the novels strike me as unfriendly, unfeeling. I can feel the author as I absorb the sentences, particularly their hands. and they are cruel, and unhappy, and aim to hurt.

I am the princess of that intact mystery

i haven't logged into this website for months b/c they prompted me to change my password & that was enough to call it quits

GI, your government lies to you. you should be at home gooning, GI joe