I have no story worth telling. I am a living phantom, a nobody, a shadow on an alley wall projected from a gutter, gone in the flash of a police light and swallowed back up by blackness in its passing. There is nothing here for me, and though I despise this place, I cannot dream … Continue reading New Year || Same Hopeless Depression
The machine is failing, spewing blood and oil and the collected essence of millions -if not untold billions- of human sacrifices out into the aether; this moribund amalgamation of flesh and steel and piss within which our lives all become entangled like the intestines of a medieval man nailed to a breaking wheel, and the … Continue reading The End Is Nigh || Brain Stew for Dinner
Destitute, shambling and hopeless, this town is collapsing, falling into itself and aspirating in the vomit of too many washed-out barflies and bygone bike weeks. The worst part is that it's taking us all with it in its final death rattle. Or is that the best part? Maybe we deserve to be scrubbed clean and … Continue reading Grit and Grime | Scum Runs Through the Veins of This City
I feel increasingly disconnected from the world around me. Even the handful of people I interact with on a regular basis seem like far-off shadows, vague mirages assuming familiar shapes. I often wonder how much of this is real. The idea of suicide appeals to me but I still haven't got the strength to pull … Continue reading 9/22/2022 | Disaffected, Broken, and Alone
Today was a bad day: not a miserable day or nightmarish or horrible, but just bad, made so by trivial things at my day job. I’m not going to let that spoil my evening though, and thus far the evening has been pretty good thanks to a small but filling meal prepared by my missus … Continue reading Blog – 12/14/2020
Towers of Rust 