10/16/2026
Here's an excerpt of Allison Masangkay's writing.
My Top 3 Most Memorable Crow or Raven Interactions (Excerpt)
Sometimes it’s painful to accept things that are supposed to be positive, like relationships, whether intimate or strange. Like acing tests endured through an elevated heart rate even though they were administered by former friends on manipulation, insincerity, and extraction. Or reminiscing about being in the arms of a former partner, but those memories are accompanied by compressed ribs bruised after winning a fight through tears. I’m still trying to heal, awaiting childhood mealtimes beside family members only to be served tender meat hanging guilty from my own bones; I’m only full from an abundance of absent apologies which I’ve learned are intergenerational conflicts, touring with no stops planned across my veins.
