What is Somewhat Serene?
My substack, Somewhat Serene, is a blog and newsletter all in one! It's where I process my life as a writer and connect with other storytellers. There, you'll find anything from midnight ramblings about big feelings to cringeworthy memories that keep me up at night.
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Slowly but Surely
It’s all Coming Together
April 8, 2025
There are these chunks of me that have been floating around aimlessly since before I can even remember, and something about this process is allowing them all to settle back in the center of my chest. When I got the urge to write it all down—the bits and pieces of stories and feelings that I’d never put together into one cohesive narrative—I never thought a piece of fiction would be the thing that validated the ache in my chest, finally allowing it to feel at rest…
Chronicles of Cringe: Episode 1
Meet Me in the Frozen Foods Section
April 11, 2025
There was no way around it. Carmen’s older cousin Jeremy was hot. I’d been eyeing him at birthday parties and other miscellaneous social events since I was 14 and he was 15, so when he sent me an instant message on Facebook at 18, he didn’t have much work to put in…
Wethersfield Road
Chapter 1
February 25, 2025
Amelia Glickman would never admit it, but she secretly fantasized about near-fatal car wrecks and potentially terminal cancer diagnoses. It’s not that she wanted to die, per se; she dreamed of being the center of attention among worried friends and family, deliciously dramatic hospital visits, and social media posts about how she “lit up any room she walked into.” Amelia had always sensed that she was someone people tended to take for granted, someone you didn’t appreciate until they were gone. Or, at least, almost gone. She walked around with a chip of “then they’d be sorry” on her shoulder. Or she did, until the crushing reality of an actual near-death experience all but annihilated said chip.