ihavebeenfloated

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You’re out on a date with a girl. At some point during the date she receives a phone call. Although for the whole date so far she hasn’t answered a single one, she takes this one. She talks to the person briefly, but still a bit too long. While she’s talking to them, she’s laughing [...]

“You’re worthless.”

“Yeah, I know, my parents told me that enough when I was a child.”

“Hey, it takes a lot of courage to tell the truth to a kid that young.”

I’ve been writing small bits of fiction in my comments on people’s Myspace. It mostly started as joke I was playing on Juan and they weren’t serious until I wrote a shoddy little on on Greg’s Myspace and I decided that I should do it more often. I’m posing the very few I’ve written here [...]

I love the sound of women running. The clickity, clickity, clickity of their heels on pavement. Music to my psyche. The chase, exhilerating.

Brown hair, bouncing across her shoulders. Back and forth, back and forth, so many individual strands all acting as one, waving to me, beckoning.

She’s got a good lead on me, but I can [...]

(Preface: I wrote this for my friend Greg. This is my take on Lovecraft, in a way.)

I know not why I am still alive to tell you this tale. At times, I wish I was not, for what I am about to disclose to you is inconceivable, not only to others, but to myself as [...]

There is blood in your hair. It comes off in my hands. It’s filling the front of my shirt. I’m just so glad to be able to hold you close to me that I can’t bring myself to ask you why. I don’t. You don’t just tell me. You’re crying. Your breaths are difficult. I’m [...]

When I found them in bed together, I wasn’t shocked. There was a sense in the last two months that he would stray from me. I knew it, I could see it in his eyes. He would still look at me with love and lust most of the time, but there were moments when I [...]