At one point in my life I was very involved in editing Wikipedia and bridging the gender gap that exists in biographies about women. At one of the annual conferences there was an editor and researcher who had looked at all the times that the words “she” and “her” were used in the ...
which has put a few people into remission for some period of time. But the odds of that are very, very low–single digit, in my guesstimate based on the nurse’s guesstimate, although my dad and boyfriend persist in being more optimistic. My main reason for participating in the ...
Short Story #11 The Last Funeral (1600 words) *All stories are protected under the © Seal of the Copyright Office of the United States. April 27, 2023 and May 01, 2023 A boy spends his childhood and youth alone in this world, an orphan without affection or love, bouncing between ...
but she adamantly refused to go. She begged and pleaded. She wouldn’t say why, but she was obviously scared, so Kyle let her stay. At least for a few days, till things simmered down. Plus, he liked having her around, a welcome distraction from...
Up comes the dark; down goes the sun. The square is walled with windowed light. Sleep well, you lusty Fusiliers; Shut your brave eyes on sense and sight, And banish from your dreamless ears The bugle’s lying notes that say, “Another night; another day.” ...
Those short, three words felt like air bubbles coming up from below the surface of a deep pool in an ancient cavern; or like a mountain spring that had been plugged up for decades, finally finding the tiniest of openings and bursting out from the pressure. The words came to the surface ...
In a lot of different ways. From a lot of different people. In a lot of different words. Bipolar disorder, self harm, body dysmorphic disorder, borderline personality disorder, anxiety disorder. All the disorder of being mental, coming down to one neat thing; pain. Just pain! I know it’...
from me again. All you have to do is admit that you killed Cristobal, admit that you fucked up, admit that you were scared, that you hate yourself, that there’s some days you don’t think you deserve to live. And the only thing that’ll make you forget is by being someone else....
When I speak to you now, you turn your head and look me in the eyes. I cannot know if you understand my words, but I would swear that you tried to smile at me today – and I do miss that smile. For now we will watch you breathe, and wonder what you are thinking – and we ...
Short of dying peacefully in our sleep, many of us would opt for such a quick and clean exit from life, if we could. But the risks of legalising the assisted suicide of vulnerable, scared and therefore potentially manipulable people are not hard to see. There’s a good exploration of so...