hello, and welcome

I am not good at introductions, but here’s a little about me:

• Wenyi Xue is a pen name because the semi-anonymity grants me the privilege of vulnerability.

• This is where I post prose-memoir-essay hybrids that may or may not also count as poetry.

• I’m a Chinese woman w/various neuroses. Please keep this in mind when interacting with me.

love, as an introduction

My favorite ice breaker is to ask people to choose five pieces of media of any kind that they feel define them as a person. Often, I am asked if it’s simply media they love or media they relate to. I tell them the disambiguation is up to them.

Here are my five:

• Earthlings, by Sayaka Murata

• Bones and All, dir. Luca Guadagnino

• Crush, by Richard Siken

• Fracture, by Grendel Menz

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh

credits

The image used for this publication is Pallas Athena and the Herdsman’s Dogs, painted by Briton Riviere. I only use public domain images in my posts; they will always be credited.

Thank you for checking out my work :) To be read at all is an honor.

Wenyi Xue
薛文逸