Death And Me: A Love Story
I was in a full panic before my mother said anything at all. I didn’t want to ask what was going on, because her face and her shaking hands were confusing me. Usually, when I was in trouble, my father...
View ArticleWorth It Pain
I have no memory of “the scene.” My entire neighborhood was standing around me in a circle, apparently, and I was bleeding everywhere. This makes me experience two decidedly conflicting emotions:...
View ArticleThe Little Person Incident
I was in a gas station because I needed a pack of Kool Kings. In line in front of me was a retarded midget. And I mean really retarded, as in mentally disabled. Now, I am lacking in every...
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A Thousand Words: Baby Birds
I’d say my life started at the approximate moment that my identical twin sister died next to me in my mother’s womb. After that, it moves all over the place. But that was the key moment, right then....
View ArticleA Relaxing Day at the Spa
I went to a spa for the first time the other day. Booked myself a massage and a facial at Burke Williams. It’s very fancy, and when I checked in I was immediately escorted to the ladies’ locker room,...
View ArticleI Don’t Know What This is About
There’s a disgusting commercial on the television. They keep flashing photographs of some unfortunate woman’s foot – she appears to have a lot of trouble keeping the skin on her heels healthy. They’re...
View ArticleAnother Way to Ruin Your Life
It starts innocently enough.You are experiencing the tedium of the afternoon, restlessly wishing the ticking second hand on the clock would just only tick faster, though you’re not entirely certain...
View ArticleYou Must Not Take the Sugar
A stranger and his friends who were sitting next to me in the Starbucks asked me if I knew the difference between right and wrong. Or maybe he said good or bad. I can’t remember. Is there a difference?...
View ArticleSoothing the Cretin Within
You are nervous, you’ve noticed, but you haven’t got any drugs to help with that, and visiting an unethical psychiatrist in order to acquire a prescription for those drugs would have a negative effect...
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