I need to learn how to let underground zits work themselves out. I chipped a tooth before trying to get one out. It’s the same tortured look in the mirror as I squeeze so hard that the scary vein in my dad’s forehead is now my own. I know it doesn’t want to come out …
I’ve always assumed that our moods are cyclical. It only makes sense because sometimes I am happy and sometimes I am sad and sometimes I’m somewhere in between but always I am these things again. We were talking on Facetime when I finally got a good enough connection and I was explaining my venn diagram …
Maybe it was peace at last, who knew. I very often write these articles, and many important writings, while listening to music written by songwriters that feel a lot and convey a lot of emotion through their songs. I fuckin forgot about this little experiment when I decided to take a friend out for local …
I’ve been listening to the same playlist since I left San Diego on the 8th. The night before I left she laid in my bed in my t shirt and made me this playlist while I packed all my shit. Three weeks is a long time to be gone. Trying to get by in a …
This writing experiment is going to be different for me. I’ve never participated in one of these as a soon to be married man. I’ve never participated in anything as a soon to be married man. I’ve dated many girls that knew I was a writer, loved that I was a writer, thought that my …
I’m leaving tomorrow to see my girlfriend in Colorado but all I can think about is her. We sit down at the table, my vision is trailing. My ears are deaf. All I can do is stare at her. We’re in the extra bedroom at my parent’s house, whispering. She grabs some oil and starts …
The way she was looking at me like she was surprised to be looking at me, and then I was just acting casual like I wasn’t even trying to be there at that exact time. “When I was younger I always wished for the same thing,” I told her. “That all I ever wanted was …
I got the call from my mom. She was crying. Crying doesn’t guarantee sympathy, she cried about everything. But this time I could see why. My sister texted me a few minutes later. “You going?” That was it. We didn’t need to say much to each other, we actually got along. I guess I had …
How is the world ever supposed to know my greatness when it keeps dealing me these average situations? For ten years I have been perfecting the defense for a mountain lion attack. Sense him leaping through the air Wait til the last possible second before he clenches onto your neck Turn to face him Fall …
When you walk out the front door so early like that, you can’t be sure what you’re going to see. There are, of course, the old-timers that are up reading the paper and there are, of course, the young type A over-achievers out for a run or doing their Pilates program in the living room, …
