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The Elevator

By Stephen

The light above is a bright halogen light, like a vampire, I am afraid to let it touch my skin, petrified by what it will reveal. I stare down at my feet trying not to make eye contact with the woman across from me. I want to say hi and ask her about her day, […]

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Life, the Unexplainable

By Stephen

Sometimes things happen in life that make no sense whatsoever.  Or they are so ironic that they are unexplainable by natural phenomena.  8 days ago, while traveling through Hoi An Vietnam my wife was hit unexpectedly by a moped.  She was knocked unconscious and later airlifted out of Vietnam to Bangkok Bumrungrad Hospital where I […]

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The Continuum

By Stephen

I look at my last post and only have a slight remembrance of all that pain, I can feel the place inside my chest and the holes inside my face where it resides. But today, I feel strong, and confident… well at least a little bit. Tomorrow? who the hell knows. The problem is, I […]

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Living Suicide

By Stephen

You can die alive, I have been proving it over the last few months. At first I thought my only way out was to hang myself from something or make a 2-inch slit through one of the great arteries on the side of my neck. But I devised a better plan, one in which I […]

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SHAME

By Stephen

Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging. I look at myself and I feel shame I look at others and I feel shame I breathe and I feel shame I exist and this is such a fucking shame. So shame on […]

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