Cracking
Can you ever feel yourself cracking? Feel your brain slowly sliding open like two tectonic plates hellbent on creating a gulf in the ocean? It is…
Tracking a Lost Day
Yesterday, a Saturday, was a day lost entirely to depression. Very occasionally, this happens. Here, I will attempt to document it, and in so doing…
My Old Friend Paul is in Jail Now
Paul's house always had a rotating cast of perma-stoned, full-time gamers around 20, my age. They treated my best friend Liam and I at a distance, as…
Curmudgeon 2
Let’s talk American politics. Party D: Everything is the fault of rich people. We’ll take away their money to buy your votes. Party R: Don’t be poor.…
Curmudgeon
I’m past tense all the way to agitated. Past tense for “cast” is “cast” and yet I’ve seen “casted.” If a man is executed by rope, he is “hanged.” He…
Three Mornings After from Last Summer
June I woke up hungover in Nashville today. It was hot as hell and I caught one of those Southern cockroaches in my room. Most of the day was spent…
Erotic Cake Alone; or, One Fat Man’s Rock Bottom
“Rock bottom” is a phrase usually applied to alcoholism and describes the point at which one recognizes they have no choice but to get sober or die.…
Faith and Hope
December 29th, 2020. Rocky year, eh? I guess 2021 won’t be any better. I light up a cigarette and wonder: where should I begin? Easy: where it all…
Lebanotarian’s Origin Story
Call me Faisal I am humble immigrant I come to live American dream like it say on foot of green statue lady. I have been in America two weeks, and…
The White Swan
I want you to picture in your mind a large room filled with intelligent, witty, charming, and attractive people, much like yourself. It is a theater…
