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Split: Before Addiction, and Everything After
Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the…
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My Coming Out Story
‘Coming out’ is a taking off of the mask and costume of some sorts, a revelation intended to celebrate the advent of one’s true colours.
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To Lithium or not to Lithium – that is the Question
It felt like good old depression came back – just the physical symptoms, not the emotional sadness / emptiness, which was a very weird thing to come to terms with. For me, depression had always been two-fold: I am in physical and emotional pain. But this time around, I was in pain but felt fulfilled…
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My son
Yet a stir inside the folds of my belly jolts me back to reality and the tiniest gurgle bubbles to the surface
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Unspoken Thing
I recently got published on The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Issue 2. I absolutely love the layout and the mission of the independent publisher to give as much exposure to unknown writers all over the world. Please support them when you can! We are all just a community of starving artists trying to make it…
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So You’re Pregnant – and High-Risk. How do you feel about the Stigma?
As if it wasn’t hard enough to be pregnant during normal times, I’ve decided to get pregnant during the apocalypse! Understandably, this pregnancy has not always been looked at positively, even by my close friends. I think one of the times I felt slighted was when one of my friends asked me, “How do you…