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Little Bombs

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Little Bombs

Ali Millar
Jan 10
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Little Bombs

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According to the notes app on my phone at 4.07am I wrote: lobbing grenades. I have all my best ideas just before I sleep or just on waking, because of this, I sleep with my phone under my pillow. I’m not sure they are my best ideas, exactly - I’m not sure I have many good ideas - but I sleep with my phone under the pillow regardless. It’s probably bad for me. Sometimes I send the things I think as messages to myself. There’s a glitch in my phone where it never delivers these messages, instead they have a circled exclamation mark next to them. I like this idea of my phone censoring me, as if it knows they’re of less value than I think they are. Sometimes, I worry I send these thoughts to the wrong person, unwittingly giving too much of myself away. I never have, not yet.

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