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.
I was bouncing between two shitholes at the time: Sharon’s house, which was a sad apartment complex of white trash that had been left behind in Lakewood, and Lewis’s house,
I used to be one of those guys who played hard to get. Not because I was shy or lacked confidence—Christ, I knew what I was capable of—but because I
They have a name for it now, a nice, clean, scientific-sounding name they cooked up in some university basement: “The Universal Fear of the Unknown.” It’s the kind of thing
I was driving from the North Shore to Honolulu, the gas light in my car blinking like a nervous eye. I was already running on fumes, pushing it hard, a
You know, sometimes the weirdest shit just falls out of your mouth. I was on a date a few months back. The usual dance. Small bites, a couple of drinks.
Is it happiness we’re all supposed to be searching for? I look around this town, this armpit called Tucson, and it seems a little less polished here, a little less
There’s this scene I remember. A young girl, all fresh and full of questions, in the back of a convertible. The wind is whipping through her hair. She’s sitting next
Fifty-six years. You spend that long looking in the mirror, you watch the goddamn show in reverse. The body starts to rot, and the mind, it just gets sharper, meaner.
I found myself sitting there, soaking it in. This positive, feel-good message, dripping like honey from the lips of this delicate flower who had her whole goddamn life figured out.
There’s a point in life where you come to a cold, hard realization: you won’t see certain people again. It’s not a dramatic thought; it’s just a quiet, sober fact.
I saw the psychic today. Mr. Tony. But before I even sat down in his little office, the day had already taken a shit on me. A long, ugly drive
Poly Poly There was this woman in Hawaii. I used to call her my Poly Girl, a cheap label for something I didn’t understand. Looking back now, after all the
