Suicide Pt. 2
“Life will get better” This is the trope offered to someone in the grips of suicidal ideation. Pain is ephemeral, temporally constrained. You may think now is bad, but the […]
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Contradiction
“I’m 27 years old, never had a girlfriend. I feel suicidal.” “Love will find you when you’re not looking for it,” she replies. “I spend my time indoors… wanking – […]
Sensitivity
Words are coming out of my mouth, but they seem detached. The effluent flows uncontrollably into the swarming background fuzz. I could, like Deepak Chopra or someone whose diet consisted […]
Tabula Rasa
“What have you been up to since we shared a womb together?” This was one of the first questions that surfaced in the mind of Paula Bernstein when she encountered […]
Numbers Game
Whether or not you’re a hipster, you’ve probably heard of Robert M. Pirsig’s bestseller Zen and the Art Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s a story about a father and son who take […]
Impotence
In October 2012, the Canadian Senate approved a bill to allow the cull of 70,000 grey seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The intention of the cull was to […]
5 Reasons Pornos are like Martial Arts Films
My foray into reductive, click-bait, list type articles on Buzzfeed was short-lived. Oh well, here’s my article that, for some reason, didn’t get to the front page. 1. The plots are […]
