Sex Ed

Each pet I've had over the last seven or eight years has been a rescue animal. I hand picked almost all of them, and there was something beautiful, and sad, and stoic about them all. I know most of their stories. Some of them have been through hardship and strife, [...]

Last night I drifted to sleep imaging long, angular ivory limbs sprawled across my tiny double bed...Little bumps like gooseflesh rising along your back because it's too early to turn on the heat and too late to sleep with a window open...The lovely luminescence of your white, white skin bathed [...]

Malalai KakerI am woven together with silvery fibres of infinite fragility, and deep within my core there is a well of sadness so deep that whenever we lower the bucket into the black abyss, we're almost always certain that it will never return.My sadness spills over from lifetimes that I [...]

Generally speaking I can cruise just high enough above my emotional well to not get seared by the intensity of the fire I've been stoking for thirty two years. Every once in a while though, I wake up like any other day, but suddenly feel as though my skin has [...]

Perhaps I cracked a rib. Or bruised it. Or pulled a muscle. At any rate, my right side hurts. A lot.Maybe what happened is that I became so full of self-pity that I actually split. Down the side. Just a little.No. More. Sad.And like that it's done. I know I'm [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to comfortably enjoy being alone, all your collective past demons rear their ugly heads in one giant wave of WTF.The universe is throwing things in this general direction that continually serve to illustrate one point, and one point only - my heart is [...]