Stories That Bleed Truth – Blood in My Stool Blog

Explore raw, unfiltered reflections on life, loss, identity, and love. From monogamy to madness, these real-life stories pull no punches — and they just might hit home.

The Performance Of The L Word

I’ve waded through the thick of it, watching the same tired play performed in a dozen different languages, but the script is always written in disappearing ink. It’s a contract

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The Hallmark Conspiracy

I am sitting here in the humid, exhaust-choked corner of Da Nang, staring at a bottle of Saigon beer that I am ninety-nine percent sure was filled from a rusty

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The Bliss of The Oblivious

There is a specific kind of quiet you only find in the Navy brig. Solitary confinement isn’t just a physical room; it’s a mirror. It forces you to sit in

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The Commodity Of The Bone

I’m sitting here in Da Nang, watching the parade of the absurd. It’s a humid morning, the kind that makes your shirt stick to your back like a second, unwanted

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The Junk Bond Of The Heart

I just had an eighty-dollar-an-hour Beta boy in a clinical chair try to tell me that my heart was “hiding.” He sat there with his soft hands and his degrees,

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The Captains Table in The Mud

I’m sitting here at the Rooster Brewery in Da Nang, watching the humidity curl around the neon lights, and it hits me—the sheer, unvarnished weight of the optics. I’m 6’4″.

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Porcelain Confession

The porcelain stares back at me, white and clinical, like the cold eyes of an eighty-dollar-an-hour psychologist. I’m standing in the dark of a Da Nang bathroom, fifty-seven years of

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The Commodity Trap

In Hawaii, they don’t call it dating; they call it survival. You walk into the 808 with a top 5% profile, thinking you’re the prize. But the local women? They

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The Foreigners Racket

There is a specific, quiet form of racism that lives in the humid air of Southeast Asia, and it doesn’t wear a hood or scream slurs. It’s the “Foreigner Tax.”

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Pattaya Transactional Exit

The game is no longer about the phantom potential of a long-term partner or the “Sweet Lie” of a cross-cultural romance; it has devolved into the cold, clinical documentation of

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Why We Are Praying for The Past

Let’s have a heart-to-heart about the “Good Old Days.” When a man says he wants to go back to 1950, the mob immediately starts screaming about civil rights and oppression.

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