Insect, bug, caterpillar, worm, snake --

Mould, moist, growing, mushrooms - rot

Psychedelic dreams - or perhaps just psychosis

Oxidation, rust, decay, destruction, failure

Sewer, sludge, rats, infection, death

Sorrow, mourning, forgiveness, heartache

Insular, inside, introspected - nobody really knows

Borrowed, betrayal, beseeching help that does ( Read more... )

Today was the day. For months, Jacob had been dreaming of the wooden train in the window of Harold’s Toys. He had seen it in the summer, when his grandmother had taken him shopping downtown. The bright green paint of the locomotive; the vibrant red of the caboose; and the four golden and silver cars in the middle, were gong to make a wonderful ( Read more... )

I sit listlessly on the edge of the small, single bed, staring down at my hands. In them is nestled the small, black noose. Every day, it wriggles more of its reptilian body into my soul, slowly dispatching tentacles to every nerve in my body; taking over; controlling. I no longer knew how to distinguish reality from the world the noose wants me to ( Read more... )

I consider myself very privileged to have had the good fortune of being born to English-speaking parents in an English-speaking neighbourhood in a (partially) English-speaking country. Yes, Canada also has a French component to it, but for my purposes today, that is irrelevant ( Read more... )

There is no such thing, or there ought to be no such thing, as "not working ( Read more... )

I'm in!