Amy Slanger

Dear Ancestor, Explain Yourself

A formal complaint regarding civilization.

May 2, 2026 · 1,035 words

Grief

God Knows Where I Lost My TV Remote

It was somewhere between having a plan and quietly opting out of it

March 6, 2026 · 1,052 words

The Strange Loneliness of Being the Strong One

Sometimes strength is just loneliness that learned how to function.

March 2, 2026 · 791 words

The Afternoon I Couldn’t Find a Reason to Hurry

On the rare discomfort of a day that asked nothing of me.

February 25, 2026 · 1,000 words

Completely Unbothered

I am calm. My nervous system, however, has filed a formal complaint.

February 20, 2026 · 1,222 words

February Is the Only Month That Doesn’t Ask Me to Fix My Life

A month of exams, first love, first loss, first job and the strange warmth that makes all of it return every year.

February 17, 2026 · 699 words

Your Personality Is Just a Survival Strategy

The traits you call “who you are” may be adaptations you never realized you outgrew.

February 13, 2026 · 767 words

Humans Are the Only Animal That Knows It Will Die

And this changes how we live

January 20, 2026 · 897 words

Grief

High-Functioning Grief is the Loneliest Kind

Why we were never meant to mourn while being productive

January 1, 2026 · 742 words

I Perform Even When I’m Alone

On living after the idea of authenticity collapses

December 23, 2025 · 672 words

Humor

A Birthday, Quietly

On turning thirty-six

December 11, 2025 · 1,064 words

Why Does He Do That? In Present Tense.

A hyperventilating book review addressed directly to Mr. Lundy Bancroft

December 11, 2025 · 1,109 words

Travel

A Pilgrimage Back to Earth

In the barren stillness of South Africa, I learned why some appear “mad,” and others appear “whole.”

December 10, 2025 · 893 words

Why I Stare Into Space Like I’m in Love (I’m Not. It’s a Board Meeting.)

Here’s my mess. It’s funny. Maybe your mess is funny too.

December 9, 2025 · 964 words

Annual Performance Review in December

My DNA Is 70% Human, 20% Hibernating Bear and I am still figuring remaining 10%

December 5, 2025 · 910 words

The Schrödinger’s Burnout: Alive, Dead, and Still Showing Up to Work Like an Idiot

A darkly scientific love letter to everyone functioning on vibes, trauma, and caffeine.

November 26, 2025 · 1,334 words

My Trauma with the Kitchen

The science behind fear and the memories that still live in the body.

November 20, 2025 · 1,034 words

Bedtime Story

A scientifically accurate breakdown of why your “random” life is actually just physics showing off, hopefully will make you go to sleep.

November 14, 2025 · 731 words

The Year I Realised Summer Vacation Was Never Coming Back

A quiet heartbreak every adult carries without talking about it.

November 12, 2025 · 740 words

Productivity, but Make It Trauma

When ambition is just anxiety with a LinkedIn profile.

November 8, 2025 · 589 words

Family

The Perks of Broken Things

On forgotten drawers, cracked cups, and the quiet beauty of being left alone.

October 27, 2025 · 650 words

How to Have a Nervous Breakdown Gracefully

A self-help guide for those who like their despair well-lit.

October 21, 2025 · 493 words

Family

The Museum of Uncried Tears

A guided tour through the exhibits that men were never allowed to feel.

October 18, 2025 · 874 words

The Day We Walked Into a Curse

About friendship, pride, and a cursed fort

October 17, 2025 · 324 words

My Toxic Trait Is Thinking I Can Emotionally Project-Manage My Life

a confession from someone who keeps adding “healing” to her to-do list

October 15, 2025 · 515 words

Everything’s Fine, Except Everything

Some days I’m not breaking down, just slowly dissolving into fluorescent light.

October 13, 2025 · 712 words

God

The Universe Has Boundary Issues

I dated her once. She called it divine timing; I call it emotional negligence.

October 13, 2025 · 802 words

How to Survive a Spiritual Awakening Without Becoming Insufferable

Lessons from My Third Eye, Now Available in HD

October 8, 2025 · 1,237 words

The Girl Who Read to Stay Alive

On books, belonging, and the strangers who save us. Finding tenderness, one secondhand book at a time.

September 26, 2025 · 414 words

Inside a Mother’s Mind

The fears, the longings, the curses, and the love that never let me rest.

September 25, 2025 · 787 words

Rhythm Interrupted

How the future interrupts, and what we do in the pause

September 18, 2025 · 617 words

How to Survive the Circus (101 for Women Who Do It All)

No medals, no applause. Just the quiet constancy of women who keep the show alive.

September 16, 2025 · 932 words

Divorce

The Art of Getting Naked

Taking your clothes off isn’t the first step of nakedness; shame is stitched tighter

September 12, 2025 · 165 words

The Job I Wasn’t Supposed to Get

A mismatched outfit, zero elevator knowledge, and the reaction that changed everything.

September 12, 2025 · 926 words

Folding Paper, Breaking Heads, and Finding My First Mentor

A twenty-one-year-old in an orange shirt, and no elevator knowledge walks into her first corporate interview in an elevator company.

September 10, 2025 · 513 words

Humor

The Aftertastes of Laughter

Laughter doesn’t always heal. Sometimes it stings, sometimes it saves, sometimes it just misbehaves.

September 1, 2025 · 649 words

The Nest on My AC Unit

A lifetime of loves, mistakes, and lessons, told through the clumsy little nest outside my window

August 27, 2025 · 434 words

The Sleep-Deprived Manifesto of a Woman Who Knows Everything and Still Checks Her Horoscope Twice

Because control is a myth, and I’ve got the color-coded breakdown to prove it.

August 27, 2025 · 803 words

The Mirage and the Matchbox: Part 4

If you have not read parts before these, well, let it be now.

August 26, 2025 · 565 words

The Mirage and the Matchbox: Part 3

This is Part 3 of a four-part memoir series about my first months in the UAE. here’s Part 1 and Part 2

August 24, 2025 · 1,272 words

Divorce

The Mirage and the Matchbox: Part 2

This is Part 2 of a four-part memoir series about my first months in UAE. Part 1 is here

August 22, 2025 · 1,303 words

Divorce

The Mirage and the Matchbox — Part 1

It was the first time I was traveling abroad. I had recently gotten married, and my husband had gone ahead.

August 21, 2025 · 395 words

Grief

How to Look Functional While Falling Apart

From leaky ACs to butt-dialing your ex, here’s how to spin chaos into competence . One mop, one necklace, and one lie at a time.

August 13, 2025 · 950 words

God, Take My Imagination and Burn It — Part 2

continuation to

August 11, 2025 · 731 words

How to Survive Life Without Thriving

A memoir for anyone whose coping mechanisms have their own coping mechanisms

August 6, 2025 · 371 words

How to Not Cry in Public: A Guide by Someone Who Fails Every Time

Because once you let go, you’re done. And people? They stare. They pity. Or worse, they offer advice.

August 5, 2025 · 954 words

This Mess is Mine

not-so-good girl who buys crayons like penance, interviews men who flinch, and finds comfort in chole

August 4, 2025 · 773 words

Winter Afternoons, Terrace, and an Aeroplane in the Sky

All We Wanted Was the Sky

August 1, 2025 · 480 words

God

Thoughts from a Very Ordinary Day

Mercury retrograde. Murphy’s law. Me.

July 31, 2025 · 416 words

Kissa Kursi Ka

A chair. A quiet story of growing, working, aging — and the chairs that held it all.

July 30, 2025 · 539 words

Confessions of a Former Covert Narcissist (Who’s Now Your Boss)

or how I weaponized empathy, called it love, and now just call it Tuesday.

August 3, 2017 · 2,140 words