(This is my post for therealljidol .  Other entries for this week can be found here.)

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?"

Time stopped.  The morning bustle of the café, the clinks and rattles and laughs and chair scrapes, fell to petrified silence.  I looked up from my laptop at my usual table by the kitchen.  Everybody was staring at the table in the middle where ( Read more... )

(This is my post for therealljidol .  Other entries for this week can be found here.)

I broke through, finally.  Into what, I'm not sure, but I did it.

I was at the end of what Waits would've called an emotional cul-de-sac, on a Friday night in a cold apartment.  Everything sucked.  I'd had just about enough of everybody's crap.  And intellectually I knew it ( Read more... )