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Let Us Keep Our Headphones On
Recently, a friend shared an article giving advice to men on how to approach a woman wearing headphones. The content was exactly what you would expect. Some man telling other men how to approach...
The Crushing
May 9, 2021 My life is currently full of Heres that I don’t want to be in. I don’t want to be here, in this house, mothering these kids, at this age, in this mental state, and/or alive. Perha...
God’s Scissors
I am going to die. Even though I’m only about 6 years old and my life has barely started, I am certain of it. His hand of burred skin already covering my mouth and nose, he leans hard on my win...
Strong, Unbreakable Threads
By the time I pulled into the parking lot, he was already there waiting for me in his car. The apologies start walking down the red carpet of my tongue. I’m sorry I’m late, I’m sorry. I got out...
Expletive
I slept with him again. After declining months of his invitations dressed up as come-ons, I finally gave in. I don’t know why. Like many other times before, he told me he was passing through to...
It’s Been a Real Slice
Mostly it has been a succession of scattershot days dragged through a dark & muddied sludge of depression. Due to this, this entry will be a cheap, threadbare little update. For me, the hol...
Mental Scraps
If you haven’t read the previous entry, start there. This won’t make much sense otherwise. This is probably more for posterity anyway, as it is just more information regarding Ryoko & that s...
Turn Out the Lights & Merge
I saw you yesterday and you didn’t even know it was me. I was leaving Wal-Mart…My skirts swishing around my legs like the rinse cycle, as I am navigating my way to the door, pushing my cart. It ...
My Daughter the Mountain Goat
Because I struggle to sometimes connect with my daughter, I write her letters that I send to an email account I set up for her. I will give her the password some day when she is older… Dear Bri...
He Shouldn't Have Died Alone
Boy, have there been tough times…All I can do is get drunk and write to survive. (Like now…pardon any erroretically prone sentences…Yes. I made that word up.) I have this flipbook in my dreams, ...
That’s a Whole ‘Nother Tar Baby
Ok, I am attempting to write snippets that I will connect together to put a book together. I no longer have the concentration necessary to sit and write linearly. Did I just make up that word? S...
Belly Up
This is one of those entries that basically consists of me finding old letters and documenting them on here so that I can keep a literary scrapbook of different stages of my life…so when I’m old...
sick
well now comes that joyous time of year when i’m exceptionally sick again b/c it’s midterm time and god likes to make me feel like shit anytime i have to take a test b/c for some reason god does...
r.i.p.
i just got very sad news from my mother that yet another girl i was friends with thru el. school to high school is dead at age 21. sarah w. was our next door neighbor for most of my life and mom...
mental collapse
i’m ok just having a nervous breakdown.
Book Description
I’ve been an author at OD since 2000…I’m not ready to abandon ship at OD, as my whole youth is laid out there…But I am looking for other authors/readers that are not judgy-wudgy boomers, incels or insipidly boring minutiae posters.
