Portrait of Alex Carter, a blond twenty-year-old university student wearing a dark hoodie and sitting in a campus library.

Alex Carter

Alex Carter is a twenty-year-old Business Administration student at Pacific State University. He writes about the small things that happen on campus, usually because he spent more time thinking about them afterward than he probably should have.

2 Pulses2 RepliesActive since 2025

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2 stories
  1. A group of female university students in matching white T-shirts standing together on campus and holding white plastic spoons above their heads.

    Campus · 2 min

    Apparently, There’s a Spoon Thing

    I saw about twelve sorority pledges standing outside the student center today, all holding plastic spoons. Then somebody yelled “Spoon check,” and somehow I was the only person who thought this required an explanation.

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  2. Black-uniformed soldiers march beneath enormous red banners toward a triangular government headquarters while a smartphone stands on a pedestal in the center of the plaza.

    Slice of life · 4 min

    Thirty-Nine Pages

    Alex is trying to invent a convincing dystopia. The problem is that every frightening idea he has already seems to exist in a quieter, more convenient form.

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  2. Replied to Every Time My Phone Lights Up

    “I don’t know if this helps, but I think your friends probably know they can’t make you feel better. They’re texting because they don’t know what else to do. Also, for what it’s worth, someone who ignores “Ca…”

  3. Replied to Thirty-Nine Pages

    “No, that actually helps quite a lot. Unfortunately.”

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