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Wait for it . . .
The meth-like lesions have faded to blotchy complexion inconsistencies — except for the one on my right cheek, which I swear started out as a bug bite and now looks like I smudged food on my face. I’m mending, but I need to heal. It was yet another beautiful peach and rose sunset over the… Read more
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Foamy lattes
“Walking” the other night was a disaster. All I saw was death, pestilence, overpopulation, relatives I’d hoped never to run into again, and men I respected drinking frou-frou coffees, bragging about who they were banging and admitting they believe I could be non-human. It was all so wrong. GDA says we weren’t walking then. That, yes, we… Read more
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Bon Jovi hair
“Oh my GOD! What the FAWK!” And like that he’s here. Well, not God, but Gabriel and I haven’t seen him in a bit so he must be hurting for drama. “What?” his eyes are sparkling. “Three more people just signed up for this event! That makes SIX in the past two days. The deadline… Read more
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Oh, deer
I appear to be right at home in Grand Junction. With these stress lesions boiling up all over my face, and my ratted hair in desperate need of a trim, I look like any of the meth-heads that flop here. The walls of my folks’ basement are covered with severed, stuffed animal heads. Dez thought they were awesome,… Read more
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A day in the life of Tripping Raul
I walk from the bus stop five blocks up the hill, pleased as punch each day by my lack of pain. Still I picture falling, twisting just the wrong way and landing in a growing pool of my own blood, the ball and shaft of my new hip protruding from my side like a stick… Read more
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Care-less
The best Avenged Sevenfold concert yet. Who’d have thought it was possible? Red Rocks was a perfect venue for them. I’m still buzzing from the energy (no, not the secondhand smoke, that wore off by the time I got to the car). Who would have thought the Achilles’ injury is more debilitating than my hip… Read more