SPECIAL REQUESTS—2026-08-27 (Patreon)

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A SHORT INDULGENCE—Extra Content from 2026-08-24

Ailana had been busy that day. Then again, she had been busy for most of the summer.

Busy wasn’t exactly unusual.

She had started college in 2015 and begun modeling in 2016. After that, she never really slowed down. For years in the early 2020s, six-day workweeks had been normal. Sometimes she worked all seven. Two consecutive days off had been rare enough to feel almost strange when they happened.

Then, in 2024, she had thrown herself into social media content as she tried to make the transition from model to writer. Somehow, that had made the boundaries around work even less distinct.

Modeling usually had a call time and an end time. Writing could follow her anywhere.

A restaurant became something to remember for an article. A road trip became photographs, notes and research. A conversation sparked an idea. A museum, beach, neighborhood or wildlife refuge might become the beginning of a series she hadn’t known she was going to write until she arrived.

Every trip, every visit to a park, every destination… Everything had a funny way of turning into work.

She was okay with that. More than okay, really. She liked what she did. She liked discovering things and then figuring out how to share them. She liked knowing that somewhere, someone might laugh at one chapter, learn something from another, or see a place differently because she had stopped long enough to look closely.

But liking work didn’t mean a person never needed to stop.

Sometimes Ailana needed to deliberately cut a few hours out of everything—the messages, photographs, notes, schedules, edits and next ideas—and declare that those hours belonged to absolutely nothing productive.

Not a whole day. Sometimes not even half of one.

Just enough time to let her brain become quiet.

That hotel bathroom in San Francisco had given her one of those moments. Warm water. A closed door. Nobody needing an answer immediately. Nothing she had to photograph… No notes to take… Just her, the tile, and the water…

Sometimes rest could be a vacation.

Sometimes it could simply be a hot shower, a long soak in the tub and permission to think about tomorrow only after tomorrow arrived.

And sometimes, that was enough.

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