About

Like the Letter is a repository (a dump, if you will) of everything I'm proud enough to share on the digital ether. Indecision and impulse are my top vices, along with free shipping and Sex and the City re-watches, so I can't guarantee that all of my work is of high quality. At least in the section labeled "Diary."

I mostly write flash fiction (yay! commitment issues) with a focus on gothic, grotesque, and speculative elements. A professor once told me that I write stories with "traditional" and "classic" plots, and solely based on vibes, I agree. No meta, "smart" things from me. Just stories with beginnings, middles (fun word), and cliffhangery, inconclusive endings. This is where the bulk of my please-i-promise-i'm-smart work will be housed, so when in doubt of my intelligence, refer here.

I'm a quasi-people-person, so from time-to-time, I'll write about someone I'm drawn to. My first month of college, an advisor told me that the most fascinating characters are ones who self-contradict. My goal is to flesh out these discrepancies which make a person both frustrating and compelling. All real persons (from my life) will be given pseudonyms. Also, some of these profiles straddle the fiction-non-fiction line, so for all intents and purposes, my profiles are speculative fiction or autofiction.

My diary consists of unedited musings from my life. I've recently been fixated on domesticity, doubles/duplicity, being on the margins, modes of public transportation, doors, and food. So if you're waiting on the edge of your seat, that's a heads up on what I'll be spiel-ing about.

Anyways, I've talked enough. Happy reading.

About who I actually am (which I should probably lead with, but whatever, my blog, my rules): I'm Vy, pronounced like the letter, and I'm an English major at Yale concentrating in Creative Writing. I also study the Russian language, which some say is a flex, but it's really not when you're fighting for your life on every exam. In my free time, I love to run, take photos, and fail miserably at following directions. Especially when it comes to cooking. For work, I do marketing and sales with tech companies – says the same girl who is tempted to hit her Mac when it doesn't turn on immediately.