There's always a certain point where you can feel yourself begin to descend back down. After a while, you learn your own triggers. Exhaustion, rejection, threat, panic. They swirl together in your head, you have to shut yourself down to quiet them. Stop thinking, stop feeling. That desperate attempt to calm the storm that seems to constantly ( Read more... )

Cruelty always surprises me. I'm not sure why; at this point you'd think I'd recognize it early. Or at least be ready when it hits. But I never am. I can understand anger, disappointment, that need for space. But never the capacity to hurt somebody who cares about you simply because you can ( Read more... )

I met my Charon when I was eighteen. He was so solid, I didn't particularly care where he took me. I liked the predictability. The grip of his hand on mine as he led me down. A little deeper each time. Down into the canyons, the basements, the empty pools. The parties blend, collide and fade into each other. They did even then. Colors ( Read more... )

We got our first icing-over last night. I went outside this morning and everything was covered in a layer of ice. Bare tree branches were coated, dripping softly and shining like crystal. The best ones have a leaf or two on the tip of a branch, also coated in ice. It's not cold enough for the rain to turn to snow or sleet, it just freezes ( Read more... )

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Psst!Hey don't tell anyone...It's Jeff ( Read more... )

Stolen from Orange County Weekly. Because people from Orange are just that damn funny.

Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” is one of the most baffling pieces of music of the modern age. It’s got something to do with cheerleaders-that much is clear, judging from the chanting and the marching band that’s honking and tooting in the background. Beyond ( Read more... )

I awoke to your smell today ( Read more... )

So, uh...I had breakfast with my dad today ( Read more... )

I am reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I read it before bed, as I have every other book I've ever read. But this one effects me ( Read more... )