I've been offered a ticket to London.It leaves halfway through November. The last pieces required for my Irish passport are coming together. The utilities are now in David's name. An ad for my room is going up on Craigslist this week. I don't know where I'm going to live. I don't have reliable work. There is no safety net. And, if I get this right ( Read more... )

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SLIP | Dance by @PhillipChbeeb & @ReneeKester | Music by @ElliotMossMusic | Shot by Jerel Mascarinas I left my name behind during my last trip and found new homes for more of my belongings since I have returned. My life grows smaller and smaller still. Fewer things, fewer people, less and less and less. It is exhausting to be alive and so isolated ( Read more... )

I just spent the weekend working from one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. It's an olive grove in Southern California, lit at night only by candles, fire, and fairy lights, with music playing and clever people around white tables. Thirty-five hackers, their partners, their children, and me. Total number: just under sixty. Almost ( Read more... )

The air bit with a chill that didn't match the bright sunlight. I was on a bus traveling from my apartment to a doctor's office I'd never visited at the university of British Columbia. The view from the bridge might have been pretty, but to me it was nothing but a view of the recent oil spill. I did not know what to expect at the doctor's office. ( Read more... )

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San Fermin - Sonsick - Audiotree Live

I found me a hopeless case and resolved to love
Maybe we can find a decent place when I'm old enough
Found love in an empty gaze, tried to fix it up
I found me a hopeless case, oh, oh.I've been fueled by single size candy-bars this week, returning to Canada face first into my stash of kit-kats and candy ( Read more... )

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." ~ Maya Angelou"What are you doing, can I help?" I murmured, softly pulled from sleep by the man who was quietly getting ready to leave for work. It was the day before my birthday. He had been very careful, but the sound of a suitcase zipper had been enough to wake me. He chuckled and sat down on ( Read more... )

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“He shook me awake saying, The most horrible thing has happened. The most horrible thing has happened! Y- just sucked N-‘s dick. I took a video.” The porch was crowded with people sharing cigarettes and thin beer in red disposable plastic cups. The woman telling the story shook her head, laughing a little, her black tank top beginning to slip from ( Read more... )

“Because I’ll Never Swim in Every Ocean”
by Catherine PierceWant is ten thousand blue feathers falling ( Read more... )