(This is an abridged excerpt from my latest book. Enjoy. . . .) It is precisely here, when we try to be real, that the true difficulty becomes increasingly overt. If “our Great War is a spiritual war” as Tyler Durden says, then we should expect to be resisted when we begin to question the […]
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AA is for Quitters
(This is a short excerpt from my forthcoming novel, That’s Me in the Corner, spoken in the voice of the book’s protagonist, Brody Graham.) *** Christopher was a full-on cokehead junkie, but he got clean and became this puritan who’s always irritating the hell out of everyone, saying things like, “I’m not going to tell you […]
The Beauty of the Abnormal
I once had someone tell me that I just liked being “depressed.” Well, I suppose there’s a fine line between learning to live with something and learning to thrive in it. Also, there’s a certain amount of pride that wouldn’t allow me to admit it, because it was intended as defeat. In my mind, it […]