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Michele Koh Morollo
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Why I Secretly Miss Being a Smoker

I made the life-saving choice to quit, but man I could use a smoke break — It’s been 10 years since I quit smoking. I didn’t stop because I wanted to, but because my fiancé quit smoking and asked for my support in the form of solidarity. I agreed to quit but after finishing my last cigarette, I couldn’t sleep. Desperate for a hit of nicotine…

Smoking

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Why I Secretly Miss Being a Smoker
Why I Secretly Miss Being a Smoker
Smoking

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May 6, 2022

Writer’s Joy

Friend: I got that job I wanted with that Fortune 500 company I applied to! Writer: I have this amazing story idea and it’s shaping up nicely. Friend: I’m getting married! Writer: I got a rejection letter from “Tin House”…but it’s a really encouraging one, they told me to ‘keep…

Humour

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Writer’s Joy
Writer’s Joy
Humour

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Human Parts

·Mar 22, 2022

Preemptive Grief

Silly sadness, anxiety, or a means of living and loving more fully? — I have a 10-month-old kitten who I named Sayang — this means “love,” “sweetheart,” or “darling” in the Malay language. I adopted her from a shelter when she was four months old. I have more than 200 photos and videos of her on my iPhone and my husband tells me…

Grief

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Preemptive Grief
Preemptive Grief
Grief

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Human Parts

·Oct 25, 2021

Last Night, I Saved My Husband’s Life. Again.

Illness and spousal caregiving inevitably challenge a marriage — Last night, we came home from a grocery shop at Safeway and my husband had offered to make us shrimp bucatini. But it was 5:45 p.m., a little too early for dinner, so he decided he’d head outdoors for a quick 30-minute bike ride before returning home to cook. While…

Caregiving

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Last Night, I Saved My Husband’s Life. Again.
Last Night, I Saved My Husband’s Life. Again.
Caregiving

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Oct 19, 2021

Me Too Killed James Bond

Why Bond can no longer hack it as a hero for our age. *spoiler alert Growing up, my dad wasn’t a big cinemagoer, but he was always first in line at the box office whenever a James Bond movie came out. The first Bond film I watched was “Octopussy” with…

James Bond

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Me Too Killed James Bond
Me Too Killed James Bond
James Bond

6 min read


Oct 12, 2021

Good Autobiographical Writing Should Be Like A Striptease

How to craft personal essays that don’t put your readers to sleep. Medium recently informed me that I was a top writer in the topic of “Life Lessons”. I felt almost embarrassed that I had written so much autobiographical content but was nonetheless thrilled that my stories got read. I…

Personal Essay

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Good Autobiographical Writing Should Be Like A Striptease
Good Autobiographical Writing Should Be Like A Striptease
Personal Essay

4 min read


Oct 12, 2021

Guacamole

A self-satisfied wife sees her husband talking to her friend’s teenage daughter. “He doesn’t even realise he’s being inappropriate, that’s how thick he is! The idiot sends out all the wrong signals cos he’s so eager to be liked,” Janet was complaining about her husband Dan. Grace noticed how much…

Short Story

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Guacamole
Guacamole
Short Story

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Oct 1, 2021

Purpose: Blessing and Curse

Why knowing your calling in life can be both a good and bad thing. My 52-year-old husband is in transition. Like so many pandemic casualties, he got laid off earlier this year from the company he was with for 21 years. He’s been feeling overwhelmed and is finding job-hunting to…

Life Lessons

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Purpose: Blessing and Curse
Purpose: Blessing and Curse
Life Lessons

5 min read


Sep 20, 2021

Normal Is Boring

How I got over my hankering for the conventional life. “So, what’s going on with you?” My therapist asked me. “I don’t really know. I’m just a little unhappy. Not like depressed or miserable, but a little agitated and ill at ease.” “Why do you think that is?” She said. …

Psychology

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Normal Is Boring
Normal Is Boring
Psychology

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Sep 15, 2021

Rowan Lodge

A story about art, love and ghosts. Daisy Taylor spent most days in her painting studio on the top floor of a Mayfair townhouse where she lived with her husband Felix Reginald Taylor. Felix owned a small gallery called The Faeger, which had an impressive collection of post-war Japanese abstracts…

Fiction

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Rowan Lodge
Rowan Lodge
Fiction

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Michele Koh Morollo

Michele Koh Morollo

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Journo | Copywriter | Short Fiction Author | www.michelekohmorollo.com | Author of “Without:Stories of lack and longing”

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