How do you feel about present tense?
I'm writing something where for some parts the immediacy of present tense makes it nicer, but enforcing it over the whole story isn't as natural feeling. I'm wondering in what contexts people have used present tense comfortably through an entire work; at least 8 pages. (This is potentially way, way longer)

So this is what the first part of my saturn return looks like

what it is to lie naked
at the washerwomans door
is to have your skin
open and exposed
scrubbed and sanded
every bit of dullness removed
so you can shine like golden phosphorus

if we refuse to burn the debris;
watch it dissolve and turn to ash
then we are carried there again and again
more than seems fair; more than seems necessary

once you
kneel there
heart open as a gift
she will teach you
to wash yourself

So originally I thought the shootings at The Zone (formerly Quest) were related to the gang shootings out on SE 92nd and into others areas of north portland, but they weren't
Apparently, it was pretty much exchange students who were shot in this incident.
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damn
I think it's time to turn up the love
I think it's time to work on being more of service
There are places where we can connect with kids or victims of violence or.... who haven't been able ... read more

thanks y'all. However many steps back my little cousin may have taken from hugs she still said something along the lines of, I'm absorbing how people can be when they are so good.
Yeah. So uh that means all y'all who were at the bling nailed it, just by being you.
Thanks for it.