Patrick Xu.

Writer & Storyteller. Exploring narratives through fiction and essays.

I craft stories that inhabit the quiet spaces between noise and silence. Based in the Pacific Northwest, my work explores the fragility of memory and the architecture of human connection. I believe that writing is not just about describing the world, but about listening to it.

Short Fiction

The Glass Aviary

It started with the birds. Not real ones, but delicate constructs of spun sugar and blown glass appearing on the windowsills of the tenement building. Nobody saw who placed them there, but by morning, they would be refracting the dawn light into prisms of impossible color...

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Creative Non-Fiction

Echoes of Shanghai

My grandfather spoke of the Bund not as a place, but as a time. In his stories, the river didn't smell of diesel; it smelled of opportunity and rain. Returning there forty years later, I found myself walking through a city that was simultaneously a futuristic dreamscape and a ghost story.

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Poetry Collection

Metropolis in Grey

A collection of stanzas dedicated to the unseen workers of the subway system. "Concrete veins / where silence is a luxury / purchased with a swipe card." These poems explore the rhythm of the commute and the isolation found in a crowd of thousands.

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Essay

Digital Rust

We assume the internet is forever, but links rot. Servers die. Hard drives seize. This piece examines our modern obsession with archiving everything while building on infrastructure that is inherently temporary. What happens to our digital ghosts when the power goes out?

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