freelance writer & storyteller
I write about the things people do and the stories they tell themselves afterward—relationships, deception, bad decisions, and how easily good people behave badly. The interesting part is rarely what happened. It’s why it happened and what we hide about it.
My writing is observational, sarcastic and interested in the uncomfortable space between what we call right and what actually feels human. The other side of the truth usually lives somewhere in there.
—tatiana
Storytelling
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![A person swimming in a body of water, with only their head and extended arm visible.]()
Paradise
A story about how life fades away
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![A woman sitting on the floor painting on a large white canvas in a well-lit room with artwork on the walls and a plant near a window.]()
I should’ve known better
a story about self-condemnation
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![View from inside a room looking out onto a small balcony with a table holding a water bottle, pink flowers, and a plate of food. The balcony has decorative black wrought iron railings and there is a pink building with windows in the background.]()
Heatwave in Madrid
His face was golden, tired from being in the sun too long, but simultaneously refreshed. Vacations will do that to you.
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![Close-up of two people with closed eyes, facing each other, with a blurred yellow background.]()
Simultaneously
I don’t have answers as to why I did the things I did, other than I didn’t have to explain myself to anyone.
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![A tiled floor with black text that reads 'It will always be New York or Nowhere,' surrounded by decorative black and gold borders, and a person in dark clothing standing at the bottom of the image.]()
I used to be a brainwashed New Yorker
‘It’s New York or Nowhere’
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![A woman with long, straight black hair partially hidden behind a snarling black wolf with sharp teeth, in a black-and-white photograph.]()
Let Men Hunt You
And this is where women are left wondering why they didn’t get that second date…
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![We Don't Change. We Get Rewritten]()
We Don't Change. We Get Rewritten
The self you swear is really you is just whichever draft you’re on now.
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![Are you an excuse generator?]()
Are you an excuse generator?
Excuse-generating becomes a part of their character; a crutch they lean on instead of leveling up.
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![The cheapest creative reset I’ve ever tried]()
The cheapest creative reset I’ve ever tried
I honed in on my writer’s voice with ‘morning pages’
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![An artistic illustration comparing a human brain to a tree, with the brain on the left and the tree on the right, set against a dark starry sky background, with roots and branches depicted in a detailed, colorful style.]()
Your brain is begging for you to ‘touch grass’
The internet turned it into an insult. But our brains are craving for some green.
Types You Date in Your Twenties
“If I had to choose three words to describe my twenties: sex, drugs & Don Julio.”
New York - 2016