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  • Traitor: An Acknowledgement, Nothing Profound

    My friend says, “you’re not a traitor.” And it touches me in a way that I can’t quite define, except to say it’s a mixture of relief and grief and something else. Because I…

  • He Thinks, She Thinks: More on Bitterness

    If I weren’t so self-involved, I’d ask you how you were. I’d ask you how you feel about the stimulus package and Oprah and landscaping and your family. I’d remember your birthday, and I’d…

  • The Bitter End

    And so we’re here. The bitter end. My friend says drunkenly.   I’ve been living here for ages, I say in a sleep haze.   We talk for a few moments. We slur. It doesn’t matter…

  • Molding History.

    …and so now that he’s history, it’s time to define him for all time. I’m partial to changing the reference of his Christian name, L***, to a more accurate description, my “would’ve been boyfriend…

  • Context Normalcy

    My friend says it’s perfectly normal in context   My lip swelled to the size of Angelina Jolie’s lips on collagen came close to anaphylactic shock but for severe allergies it’s perfectly normal in…

  • Venting: Violence is Bullshit

    WTF, world. I am enraged that someone planted a bomb in our head of the medical board’s car (I’m an Arkansan, dear reader). Now, he may or may not be a good person or a…

  • Dentures; A Bad Day

    I can’t believe my day already my body is wearing out my nerves are frayed my teeth are falling out I put them back on with denture glue this is how it’s going to…

  • Found Out

    Most of the time, she fancies herself unstable but really, she is just incompetent. Really, she’s just a fraud. Really, she is just addicted to feeling sorry for herself.   Today, she would rather…

  • Living Dead

    The doctors and I have an understanding. We say things like, well, your treatment options are narrowing or to mix things up, we tell her, we’ll have to wait and see what the test…