In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, there lives a man whose name is Ben (short for Benjamin) Wilcox, an otherwise-normal young man in his twenties, but for unknown reasons can only find sexual gratification by sitting on his own penis. From what he can tell, Ben said, he cites no traumatic events or strange happenings from an earlier, perhaps more ( Read more... )

Still awake. My vision of the city while standing on a balcony on the tenth story of an high-rise apartment building. I watched the trails of headlights glimmering below like water catching moonlight. All the traffic at one-thirty on a Wednesday morning, the rev of motors collecting to a soft roar, in concert, ricocheting the surfaces of here and ( Read more... )

"things i would rather eat other than the hungarian cabbage rolls that my stepdad and his family love so much"
(in loose order of preference)chicken flautas from El Sombrero (Claycomo, Missouri ( Read more... )

mixtape for skidding wildly out of control on an ice patch while driving a Budget rental car, crashing into somebody's living room:

nancy sinatra, some velvet morning
panda bear, take pills
of montreal, suffer for fashion
the decemberists, here i dreamt i was an architect
mates of state, a duel will settle this
kate bush, wuthering heightsgogol ( Read more... )

"lilo"

two of two

5. Where Have You Been
6. The Ghetto
7. Broken Compass
8. Going Home
9. Epilogue (Yule)

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"lilo"

one of two

1. Prologue (Errors Symptomless and Random)
2. Should We Talk About the Weather
3. Serendipity
4. Being Unconscious

shout out to my homies

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"the closest thing to heaven for a sinner: november's concrete grey and nicotine withdrawal"My new employer tells me secrets and in the back of my mind I wonder if he means them as some kind of test, just to see my reaction. I don't want to betray his trust so I'd never repeat them anyplace, and none of them are so terrible that I need to contact ( Read more... )

"tuesday morning"

1.I still wake up early for some reason, six-thirty, I suppose out of habit from having to do it over the past couple of years and when I'm finally awake I just stay awake. The radio is still on from when I fell asleep because the sound of talking heads discussing politics will usually put me to sleep. AM radio in the morning, ( Read more... )

I'm sorry that I just completely stopped answering your calls and hoped you'd get the picture ( Read more... )

"a strong and warm wind from the south: a big fish in a small pond, a stubborn blackberry seed stuck in my teeth."There are times where I like to daydream about an imagined future where - and this could be many decades or centuries after today - where somewhere, anyplace, those who remain at least somewhat literate will sit and drink coffee and ( Read more... )