I Need a Paper

I Need a Paper

Inner Pages, finished June '26, archive

Updates on Inner Pages
My day began windy but promised a sunny afternoon.
Jun 4 • Ali Baran Y.
For Sewran
Notes on travelling home for the people we love.
May 27 • Ali Baran Y.
The people we love but could never fully live beside
This week, for the first time, I’m hosting a guest writer: my dear friend Ender Terwiliger.
May 22 • Ali Baran Y.
I hate writing in Turkish
Why writing in my mother tongue sometimes feels strangely performative.
May 14 • Ali Baran Y.
On Ending Up
Or how life quietly happens while we are busy planning it
May 6 • Ali Baran Y.
Book of Monsters
Concept of fear.
Apr 23 • Ali Baran Y.
I am here
and I am a dreamer
Mar 25 • Ali Baran Y.
A Seat on the Train
The endless journey
Mar 12 • Ali Baran Y.
Notes on Life These Days
An essay about beautiful days as a remedy
Mar 5 • Ali Baran Y.
The Goodbye Process
I’ve decided not to plan the goodbye process. It shouldn’t be a burden on my back, a duty to accomplish. It has a different resonance.
Feb 19 • Ali Baran Y.
Living for Others
An urge I cannot resist, yet despise.
Feb 11 • Ali Baran Y.
Please, Not a Phone Call
I often bargain with life and its velocity, its rapidity.
Feb 4 • Ali Baran Y.
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