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Goodbye to all the people who said I couldn’t do it. Peace out to those who never believed in me, and fuck off to those who have hoped I’d fail. I am up at five o’clock every morning to put words on a page because this is my story and I want to write it and...

Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you? When I was little, I think we were all patriotic. I think that as long as we didn’t have parents at home with rather strong and conflicting beliefs against living nicely with people in society, we might still all be patriotic. We all learned to salute...

“Write an English sonnet centered on the theme of the supernatural.” Yeah, okay, I thought as I closed my laptop. No schoolwork for me today. Instead I’m going to go out and enjoy the fresh air under a blue sky full of clouds and dance in the grass until I have to collapse there, lest I...

“Go get it Shirley, go get it!” “Why did you name a dog Shirley? It doesn’t sound like a good name for a dog.” “That was her name when I got her, when she retired from being the city’s top K-9 officer.” “You mean dog.” “No, I mean officer. They were treated like part of the...

She couldn’t get out of bed anymore, except to use the bathroom, and that’s only because she was forced and shamed into it. She would have just laid there and died, it’s what she wanted. Living alone was never something she was cut out for, and she didn’t want to do it. She’d spend the rest...