Tales from my head
Things that rattle around in my skull until it finds a way out
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Monsters are real. They live among us. You need a good eye to spot them, with experience you learn to recognize the telltale signs. The way they carry themselves, how they avoid eye contact in public, hiding in plain sight behind their phones, covering up their bodies with expensive clothes, their faces just tight masks hiding…
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God decided to make the earth while bored. Teenagers are full of energy and action most of the time, but these periods of chaos are often interrupted with stretches of boredom. God is fifteen. A teenager. A girl named Bertha. Boredom is harder for girls, especially when your name is Bertha. What was her parents thinking to pick such a…
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Sometimes I feel like an observer. Sitting comfortably behind my eyes, looking out into the world, marveling at what I see. Other times I’m speaking, and I hear myself, and I wonder if my audience is listening, and if so, what is going on in their heads. Moments like these I am very aware of…
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Jane’s done. Done living. Done caring. Jane’s tired! Tired of the sameness of every day. Tired of being stuck. Tired of feeling hopeless. So deeply exhausted that getting up in the morning is just too much to ask. Jane is a 29 years old college graduate. Tons of student loan debt bought her an arts…
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Human beings have been fighting each other for so long we have very specific names for these events. Civil when the citizens of a country war among themselves. Regional when two or three neighboring countries war each other. World when groups of countries form alliances and these groups fight each other. We have been warring for so long…
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Denial is such a powerful thing. It is so well understood and so common that I suspect the saying, ‘there is an elephant in the room that nobody talks about’ might have some of its origins in this refusal of truth, this stubborn silence we adopt when faced with something we just do not want…
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We are never really satisfied with our lives. The saying about the grass being greener on the others side of the fence proves that. Climb that fence, and once you stand on the greener grass you might see that it also has bare and brown spots, bugs and weeds. Look back at your grass and…
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Siren Sarah loves to sing. Usually in the shower when alone. She could not tell if her voice was good or not, but she could hold a note, any note. She is not a shy person, rather gregarious by some accounts, but she never sang where others can hear. All because of the accident that claimed her parents. When…
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Some thoughts about alcohol In the United States alcohol kills almost 200 thousand people each year. When you consider the damage it does to families and property it is amazing that it is even legal. Globally alcohol is the seventh leading cause of premature death. If eating corn had the same effect on society I am…
Tales from my head 