Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

Abraham Kim last shared their writing In search of lost time
By Thursday he was really sad. Not sad because he missed Mary Beth, but sad that he didn't miss her at all. He felt more like himself out West now. He was to Colorodo now.

Pete wondered what he had been doing with all his life. Being in the same space...
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🥃 53 Whiskeys
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🥟 65 Dumplings
🍍 65 Pineapples
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🥚 55 Eggs
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Abe's Blog
Pablo

Growing up I frequently heard people derisively describe Picasso's later paintings as things kids could've created. I also thought this of his later paintings but I never downplayed Pablo himself because I knew he wasn't a fluke. His early works featured photorealistic drawings of human hands, this is the type...
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2021-07-09 13:02:26

Summer of Ember
Untitled Shared at Jul 08, 2021

In the nine months leading up to COVID smashing the U.S, I was part of a mental-health startup. We were trying to create tools to lower the barrier into support group organization. We imagined a world where it was as easy to organize and operate a support group as it...
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2021-07-08 14:23:09

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When we brag

You might say we brag about things we have that are good that others don't have. But last night I suddenly realized that we actually don't brag about things we have, subjectively. When we brag about something, we subjectively can't believe that we actually have it. 

We don't brag about...
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2021-07-07 13:35:23

Flash Fiction Practice
Something to write home about

High school, nighttime, when you needed a private place to smoke a bowl, church parking lots fit the ticket. Except for holidays, churches were always empty and their parking lots were wide enough that you could see anybody pulling in from a distance.

The funny this is that out of all...
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2021-07-06 15:04:21

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Rereading Crime and Punishment revealing my darkness to me

Reading Crime and Punishment again after many years. This time around I realize that I am the destitute. I am the poor. I am the scoundrel. I am the one who pawns my loved one's stockings to get drunk. I am the one who forces someone's daughter to prostitute herself...
2021-07-05 18:41:02

Flash Fiction Practice
Rodia contemplates when to admit he's lost his job

The first face Rodia saw that morning was Mark's. 

"Hello, good morning." Mark said with a smile. "Breakfast?"

"Good morning. Thanks, breakfast sounds great."

Rodia sat down. Mark's face, which was peaking in from the kitchen into the dining room was smiling. His smile always communicated things without words. Today Rodia knew...
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2021-07-05 16:35:52

Flash Fiction Practice
Cafe out of place as reply to Vulnerability

After walking past the glass door she felt out of place. She never came to cafes without her journal, laptop, and a good book. And unlike most people she never met people at cafes. 

Today there was no time for her to cozy in the corner booth and get lost...
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2021-07-05 00:34:54

Abe's Blog
Never pay a mentor money

If someone is mentoring you it means that they're so much greater than you that yo can't rationally explain why they would spend any of their precious time on you.

... yet they still do. How can this be explained? 

Simple: they aren't spending time on you. The mentor is getting...
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2021-07-03 18:23:02

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Have Courage

Stop being so scared of being something you aren't. You aren't anything but the things you do and the thoughts you think. This is always changing. You never really are. More so you are becoming. Quit being scared of becoming what you want to become rather than something you think...
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2021-07-02 21:10:06