The Aftertaste

Still Human, Still Feeling

video story series - #1

Feb 5, 2025 • Anqi Cao

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September 2024

Caught in the Lucid Hour

six nights, six blooms, six poems

Sep 16, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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August 2024

Coming Home to Myself - Chapter 1

caught in-between the daughter I was and the woman I'd become

Aug 29, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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June 2024

Two Types of Drifting

"I've heard that there's a kind of bird that doesn't have any legs. So it can't land on nothing. It lives its whole life on the wind."

Jun 7, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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May 2024

"I Like You the Best"

unconditional love doesn't have to exist as a constant bestowed by someone special

May 3, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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April 2024

On a winter's night, in the blind massage parlor

An experimental memoir-prose, a deeply intimate glimpse into the complexity of the human condition

Apr 10, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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February 2024

In the Tesseract of Ours: Love, Death, and 'Interstellar'

A personal act of remembrance, of rebellion against the inexorable tide of time.

Feb 20, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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Pick Rachel, Not Julie - content we’ll sorely need that LLMs can't replace

You know that episode in "Friends" where Ross can't decide between two women, Rachel and Julie? He makes a list—Rachel's all cons: she's spoiled…

Feb 12, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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How to be "based" in the influencer economy

An inquiry into authenticity via the lens of internal role-play

Feb 3, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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January 2024

Between Hustle and Hoot: How I Found My 'Yugen' in SF’s Heartbeat

In the heart of San Francisco, where I've made a temporary home, I noticed a pulse that seems to run on, what I've come to joke with friends, a new…

Jan 29, 2024 • Anqi Cao

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