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It's almost five o'clock on a Monday afternoon - one of the first beautiful days of the spring. I have five cigarettes, no money, a cheap bottle of wine and no beer. The wine is so cheap it came without the burden of a cork. I can just screw it open and pour it down my mouth. I've made six phone calls and talked to four people. Apparently most people have more to do on a Monday than I do. She was diagnosed with Lou Gherig's, which is a nickname for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is a me...

It was one of those days that everything reminded me of you. The air I sucked in that day felt like it had been breathed by you before. The clouds even looked like you. And as I walked around in my sweatpants on this sullen morning, the sidewalk reminded me of you, and I couldn't figure out why. Oh, right - because you use the sidewalk, too. Tuesdays are sweatpants days. That's just how I dress on Tuesday. It's the most meaningless days of the week, so it has to be marked by something. I mar...

He plead guilty to the charges out of convenience, but he would explain everything to anyone who would listen. And she just laid there afterward. Her body framed by the cheap fabric of the backseat of a '95 Buick Century. Her face lay flat, and her mouth hung open - exposing the inside of her mouth, her teeth, her tongue, her jaws, her plaque. Her eyes were shut now, but they had been open up to this point. More like they had been stuck open. Too afraid to shut, but confused as to why they we...

You started reading this just now. Your eyes read the words, your brain makes sense of them, and automatically, you start having expectations for what I'm about to write. Maybe you're sitting around your room, with nothing to do on a Friday night, again, and decided to read this. Maybe you're at some posh coffee shop getting a triple grande caramel/carmel soy latte, and just got done wondering how to properly spell caramel/carmel, and decided to read this. Maybe you're being forced to read th...

There are lots of normal places to fall in love; places that people anticipate and purposely plan for. For example: parks, candle-lit restaurants, movie theaters, dance clubs, but not limited to.Falling in love in one of these places could result in a lifetime of deeply satisfying and meaningful love, as well as being highly preferential to other places. There are some places that are truly risky to fall in love. Roller coasters, in class, in traffic, in a bathroom, while grocery shopping, el...