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.

Drag Queen of Wife

If you want to understand this woman? You can’t start with the marriage. You can’t start with the divorce. You have to go back. Back to the source code, the

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A Bar Fight in the Brain

They tell you to meditate. Some guru on a podcast, some woman you’re trying to impress, some book you picked up in a moment of weakness. The point of it,

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The Real James OG

My father who I so love, if you’re looking for a label, was a hoarder. His house was a goddamn museum of neglect, stuffed to the gills with every quarter

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Look Into a Cold Case

You look back, twenty-eight years gone. A lifetime. The man I was then is a stranger to me now, a ghost. I’ve done my share of soul-searching since then, I

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The Day My Wife Died

You have to understand where I was at twenty-eight. No college degree, no pedigree, no silver spoon lodged in my ass. Just a blue-collar, white-trash Cailfornia kid who worked himself

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Welcome to the Neighborhood.

The marriage was already a corpse, of course, just twitching now and then for old time’s sake. The illusion was still standing, propped up in the corner of the living

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Tijuana Hot Dogs

Tijuana. The name itself tastes like stale beer and regret. You want a hot dog down there? Oh, they got ‘em. Side of the street, some vendor who probably slept

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Bunny Ranch Of The Pacific

This whole damn place after awhile, wears on the human soul, Subic Bay, the Bunny Ranch of the pacific.  There’s a line in the sand, or more like a line

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Chewing Gum

Eighteen and already shackled to the damn Navy. Aviation Machinist’s Mate – just a fancy title for a grease monkey stuck babysitting the S3 Viking. That naval aircraft, the beast

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