Category: PERSONAL ESSAY
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Mercenary Mindset Before Senior Year
By Emmanuel Williams I started college with the intention that I would make my writing better. But along the way I have learned many things, and honed many skills. Some I wouldn’t have honed otherwise. In my freshman year I learned of the Journalism major. I was working as an Event Staff Supervisor, and paying…
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Life Between…
By Emmanuel Williams * Purgatory: an in between stage preceding heaven where one is cleansed. When my sister kicked me out of her home in Aurora, CO my instinct was to find my way to the most constantly available shelter area in Denver. The Rescue Mission. There I’ve been staying during the break between Fall…
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Sending Off Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
By Emmanuel Williams News may have broken for the world on Saturday, October 11, 2025 that Diane Keaton had passed away in a hospital bed, I only knew about it earlier today as news of her cause of death, bacterial pneumonia, grabbed headlines. For those who will mourn Keaton, most will remember her Oscar winning…
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Dragon Means Guardian
By Emmanuel Williams You see, I was born in 1988. Which to the Chinese and the Japanese means that I am a Dragon. A natural leader, the luckiest of their zodiacs, every animal of their zodiacs combined in one… In the Western lore, the dragon is a malignant character, only meant to be slain so…
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The White Angel Concern
By Emmanuel Williams Today’s commute was breeding grounds for a personal essay. From the young couple who’s boyfriend couldn’t keep his hands from her lower body, to the strange double date I saw. All of whom took both of my trains into Denver today, forcing me to find distance from them but never completely succeeding.…
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How I’m Using Google Gemini (AI)
By Emmanuel Williams Contextually speaking, I simply wanted to know where I could take the most reliable IQ test in the world and what it would cost. What happened during the chat is a microcosm of how I interact with my preferred AI source, Google Gemini. I legitimately believe the resulting conversation is worth provoking…
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Peace Revisited
By Emmanuel Williams My sister wants peace back in her home. I get it, I was gone for 3 weeks and she found that peace. Now that I’m back she feels like I will threaten that. I assure you, my other sister who pays no rent in the basement is a bigger threat to that…
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The Pizza Party…
By Emmanuel Williams Emmanuel loves his elementary school. It has the best teachers, and the best lessons, and the best attractive latina girls. Oh boy. What a fucking riot. There’s Anjelica, which you pronounce with an h instead of a j and adds to her allure. He’s gonna write her the best date request/love letter…
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A Moment of Gratitude For Such Pain
By Emmanuel Williams I’m in pain. I had sex 3x in the last week with separate prostitutes. It cost more than I like to admit. Then there was the price… After I sobered up and calmed down to prepare for the next semester of College, which will officially start tomorrow, I saw an actual couple…
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Before This Gold
By Emmanuel Williams Here I sit in the best grand marigold hotel… on Colfax… in Denver, CO. On my own again… YES!! Now I can eat my own food! This poet has fled the (second) nest (a second time)! First I left my mother’s house in the projects while she entertained lovers so she could…
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I Wanna Have A Daughter.
By Emmanuel Williams Ain’t no passin’ craze. “I sit In my desolate room No lies No music…” -“Sugar”, System of a Down The room is dark around me. One lamp. My two computer displays. One screen plays “The Godfather” (Don Corleone was just murdered), the other is a fresh Google Doc meant to tell you…
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The Case for Marriage
By Emmanuel Williams Okay so we jumped the broom And it turns out I’m crazy What if she turns out crazy? We’re still fucking married here So I fuck longer than she does That’s a record, not a flaw So she snores, I snore too But I provide. I always provide. I never come home…
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