Category: Parody
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I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony # 2
People were shocked by what happened to me. They didn’t believe it could be real. I was studied by doctors, I was on TV, I was even abducted by the government for a short time and put in a underground lab. But I was healed all the same and it was all thanks to the…
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I FOUND HEALING WITH A FAMED SPIRITUALIST: Testimony 1.
Then their two shining souls, both finally free of their earthly pain, linked hands and drifted up out of the prison and into the cosmos as I sat in the plastic prison chair and wept, watching.
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I Hid My Devastating Skin Disease Because Of Shame. Here’s Why I’m Speaking Out Now.
In a manner of two weeks I went from being a woman tending to a network of drainage stents much like a Vermonter tending maple syrup taps to being pretty much a macrobiotic chef whose only client was herself, but whose care and feeding was still a full time job.
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i’m exhausted from the fear of existing while black
Ibram X Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, W.E. Dubois, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Tony Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Chinua Achebe, Trevor Noah, Ta Nehisi Coates, ?uestlove, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Dr. Wayne Dyer. I carry their words everywhere I go, in hardcover. I want the weight of their life experience to add to the weight of my…
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A Damnable Peck
Cormac McCarthy is the best writer has ever lived a true artist I told him and I won’t stand for no of this race class gender analysis of this story I told the kid. I flicked the tip of his tongue sticking out his eye socket with the tip of my tongue.
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Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Find Love Til I Was Over 40
And luckily, our passions and interests overlap. That’s why we met. We’re both obsessed with skin. I cook it and she studies it. She’s actually a dermatological research scientist who studies hair follicle development. We met when she was finishing up her PHD over at the University of Arkansas.
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I Was Ghosted By a Female Friend and It’s a Terrible Kind of Heartbreak
The pain of not knowing if Alicia was still my friend or not was agonizing in a really terrible way that I just cannot describe. If I had to describe it I would describe it as the earth being in the shadow of the moon.