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.

We All Just Need a Hug

They tell you this thing, maybe you read it in some book when you were too young and stupid to know better: “Behind all perceptions of man, only love exists.”

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Lives of Quiet Desperation

Some dead bastard, Thoreau, I think, once said that most men live lives of quiet desperation. It’s one of my favorite quotes ever. Why? Because it’s the goddamn truth. It’s

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Forgot to Plant the Seed

You want to stay. ​After all this, after the whole goddamn, beautiful, ugly circus, you want to stay here and have “ties” with your grandkids. You have this picture in

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The 50’s Death March

​They tell you that in your fifties, you finally find out what’s going to kill you. ​What a beautiful, gentle, and completely bullshit way of putting it. It’s not a

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U Don’t Drink, What do You do?

​You meet them out there, in the quiet, desperate wasteland of modern dating. They’re a new and particularly resilient strain of the human animal. The ones with the clean cars

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Dogs and Cats Theory

​I had this theory when I was a kid. A beautiful, simple, and completely wrongheaded piece of biological taxonomy. Dogs were men, and cats were women. That was it. Made

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Conditional Love Men Only

This isn’t just a diagnosis; it’s a goddamn epitaph for a generation. A boy feels he has to be something other than himself to be loved and accepted. And he

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At The Crossroads Again

​You’re sitting here, fifty-six years into the goddamn bar fight, and you’re looking at the two menus they give you at the end of the world. ​On one side, you’ve

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Remington Golden Clay

There’s a certain kind of peace you can only find in a moment of controlled violence. I always felt it clay shooting, bird hunting. The quick, natural draw, the line

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STOP – You Have a Choice

That’s it. That’s the whole goddamn story, the beginning and the end of it all. It’s not a choice between being happy and being sad. Happiness is a sucker’s game,

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Opportunities for Improvement

It starts with a betrayal, doesn’t it? It always does. You get sold a bill of goods, a beautiful, fraudulent story about a future that’s never going to come. With

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Dark Side of White Buffalo

I was so goddamn insecure, so lonely in this Tucson shithole, that I bought two tickets to a show without having anyone to go with. Two tickets to see The

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