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Author: Tripping Raul

  • Silent scream

    OUCH! DAMMIT! SON OF A WHORE! I CAN’T, I CAN’T, I CAN’T! IT’S ALWAYS THERE, THERE’S NO ESCAPE! IT HURTS, IT HURTS! OMG! MAKE IT STOP! PLEEEEAASE!!!! AUAUAUAUAUAGH!!!! Hmmm. That didn’t help much. I’m quite certain real screaming would have been far more therapeutic. Pity. OK, back to work.  

  • Practicing

    I stare at its gleaming edges, holding it up to the light and twisting it back and forth. And I talk to myself, “Put the razor down,” I mutter. “Don’t do it. Don’t!” But the urge is strong and my fingers start to tremble around the plastic Bic handle. Edison’s…

  • Making light

    It’s the little things, the things the world can’t touch. I flip the light off and look up — it stays on. I’ve lived in this house 11 years now and still haven’t figured out the switches. A year or so after we first moved in the police came to…

  • Research

    I close the back cover of my latest research effort, otherwise known as Trash Romance Novel No. 70-or-so. Heh. I had it figured out — it was the seemingly gay assistant who was avenging the loss of his woman lover and the betrayal of having her heart beating in another…

  • Princess

    I got to be a princess yesterday (Saturday). Well, yes, I suppose it started Friday even before I got my birthday lunch — which was nice and less awkward than most. And this in spite of my insurance calling Friday afternoon and saying it wouldn’t cover my  Chrysler Sebring 2004…

  • Something I’m not

    The one thing I can be confident of is that no matter my personality shifts and chameleonesque adaptation to any situation, I cannot be accused of trying or pretending to be something I’m not because if that were the case I’d have to have some sort of idea of who…

  • I got it . . .

    . . . or I think maybe I did. I dropped an intentional hook, then waited and watched. “This week,” I said to myself, “it will make an appearance this week.” And it did. And I laughed. Now, I suppose, it is up to me to discern whether this re-emergence…

  • Much better

    Just saying.

  • You haven’t worn it

    It gives me hope that you’re paying attention and that somewhere deep inside that crusty soul of yours, you might even care.

  • Inappropriate anecdotes

    My beautiful friend Christine (see Flopping on the floor) announced on Facebook that she is again facing the dreaded C. Her first bout was as a teenager and she kicked its ass and I fully expect her to do so again. She goes into surgery in a few days. My…