Returned Home to East 16th Street

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Inger is home. She returned home last year. Since then, she’s answered phones and greeted visitors at Halberd & Wren. She still barbacks at the Paradise Valley Resort and Casino on some weekends. The mess from Jace’s murder is a memory. East 16th Street in front of her house isContinue Reading

Fat Old Man

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Uncle Sam is a fat old boomer. He’s that creepy dude buying drinks at the strip bar because he believes the server’s promises. The old man is up to his eyeballs in debt, needs little blue pills to get it up, and stays breathing thanks to a slew of medicationsContinue Reading

Falling Wind Windfalls

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I HATE THIS WORLD! EVERYTHING IS SHIT! EVERYWHERE I TURN I SEE EVIL! ABUSE OF PEOPLE ON THE SPECTRUM! VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBTQIA++ PEOPLE! GREED! AVARICE! IT’S ALL JUST HORRIBLE! FALLING WIND MY ASS! You done yet? Because God made this world with both dark and light, with complementary opposites, withContinue Reading

Phone girl Because Circumstances

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Never mind DSA or any other organization whispering sweet nothings into your ear. Everything you need to make your life and your world better is already in your hands. You have what you need.
Start now — exactly as you are, with what you have.
I know the beginning sucks. It’s not fun. Most days it feels like failure and grind. But the only way through is to keep going. Keep growing. The Way is hard, but it is good — and it’s the only path that actually transforms the shitshow instead of just complaining about it.Continue Reading

Lilly nursing her second litter

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Lasting change works the way yeast leavens dough — slowly, invisibly, from the inside out. It’s shaped the way a baker kneads dough, with small, repeated motions that look like nothing until suddenly they’re everything.Continue Reading

Mourning Period Be Happy

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You cannot be happy. Joyism causes evil that fosters oppression. Learn to be melancholy or choleric because that’s revolutionary and joyism isn’t.Continue Reading

Quoheleth All is Vanity

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Greatness, love of self—these are vanities? The WTF Puritan Scolds think so. To them, everything is vanity, everything is stupid, everything is a striving after wind.Continue Reading

Rafe WTF-AF

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The promise is seductive. A classless paradise where everything was fair. No one had too much or too little. It didn’t work out that wayContinue Reading