Waiting

I don’t know why I’ve stayed here. It’s all over for me. That’s why I did it. What am I scared of now? I let it out, why don’t I feel free? I rubbed myself all over with Bio-Oil; my partner used to use it on her stretch marks, on her tits, after puberty made […]

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Autism as a Superpower

If autism is a superpower, as I’ve heard some people remark, I hope people understand the full implication of that statement; all superheroes have dark pasts and a plethora of weaknesses. Being too accepting of autism by imagining it to be a superpower without drawbacks is to deny the reality of the situation, which is […]

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Paid to Care

I know I should go in there and stop him. I also know that no one knows I am at this end of the ward. He is hanging there, I should untie him… I’m not his primary nurse though, she should be checking on him. I just came to this end of the ward for […]

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Mother

My mother is a dragon,Deep be the fear in you fluttering gutIf you cross her she will batheIn a glut of your disembodied limbs, blood and the stretch of your guttering bowels. Fierce is her face,The helmet of a valkyrieMoulded to her cruel visage,For she is the Morrigun, ready to pluck your eyes, to swallow […]

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Excerpt from a Psych Ward

How many times can you punch a wall? Once, usually, not that it is usual, not normal anyway, maybe usual for some…but once is enough to break your fist or window or whatever, enough to calm your rage a bit, so you don’t hit the person you really want to. Then there are those times, […]

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Sabrina Di’Anno: 1 Hun Dread

This scene is taking too long. It’s getting dark; we’ve wasted the Golden and the Blue hours. I don’t want to carry on, but we’re close to wrapping and if we finish today we don’t have to pay the extras for tomorrow. As the fools who choose to take royalties instead of wages there is […]

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