[{"id":2497,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/my-mother-by-shrishti-khanna\/","name":"my-mother-by-shrishti-khanna","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'My Mother' by Shrishti Khanna","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-09-03 16:29:58","modifiedDate":"2025-09-04 13:19:04","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-09-04 13:19:04","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-20\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 20<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-20\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 20<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":15},"status":"publish","excerpt":"has started adding too much\nwater to her tea.\nI\u00a0 don\u2019t tell anyone\nabout the shame.\nI do not\npartake most days.\n\u2003\u2003most days, i abandon\nmy body.\nI soak the towels,\nand I am sorry.\nI say it is how it is.\nmy mother\u2019s thoughts leav"},{"id":2477,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/rhinoceros-by-aisling-towl\/","name":"rhinoceros-by-aisling-towl","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Rhinoceros' by Aisling Towl","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2025-09-02 12:12:29","modifiedDate":"2025-09-04 13:18:20","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-09-04 13:18:20","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-20\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 20<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-20\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 20<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":3,"sec":20},"status":"publish","excerpt":"This sort of thing happens to me a lot\nBy this sort of thing I mean finding myself in the foyer of a theatre glued to a Reddit thread about disassociation from SSRI withdrawal\nReplacing the burden of loneliness\nWith the burden of companionship\nOr the other way around"},{"id":2479,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/blue-supermoon-by-fatimahzahra-nusairee\/","name":"blue-supermoon-by-fatimahzahra-nusairee","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"'Blue Supermoon' by Fatimahzahra A. 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