Tag Archives: Depression

True Outlaw

{Nov 20, 2023}

Santa Claus always gets the credit for delivering Christmas gifts, but it was tired, overworked bastards like me making sure everything got there on time, 13-speed, 500-horsepower white Freightliner pulling a dry van, and rather than shouting ho-ho-ho and whipping reins, we were throwing gears and blowing our horns at assholes in beemers cutting us off at every exit.… more

Rejoice, We Conquer

FICTION by Jaime Balboa

{May 19, 2021}

For the briefest moment, absolute fear welled up in António and threatened to engulf him.… more

Love—

FICTION by Israel A. Bonilla

{Aug 10, 2020}

Five years I had tended to an increasingly severe depression. It had no identifiable beginning. Or if it did, we were not aware of it. The liveliness of her manner dimmed in a strange progression. Her highs were always attaining the same height, but her lows found newer and newer depths. Until the highs became a tolerable apathy, then nothing. … more

Toward a Happy Culinary Life (Notes)

FICTION by David Whelan

{Feb 17, 2020}

At the final word he looks sad, perhaps recalling his first love (jam), but his observation lingers across the sticky plastic table and your children, at once, come to a realization that all is not right in their world. That their parent is either a liar or, worst, fraudulent.… more

In Line at Walmart With All the Other Damned

FICTION by Steve Passey

{Mar 11, 2019}

We used to be worth something. … more

One Night In Rapid City

FICTION by S.W. Campbell

{Oct 1, 2018}

An isolated man in his hotel room find himself unable to move past his own ruminations. … more

The Bass

FICTION by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

{Sep 28, 2017}

I know I can get better if I want to. Everybody can get better if they want to. At the Duck Thru the black ladies are talking ‘bout the Bradley man that used to be sheriff in Halifax County. He killed himself yesterday. Melissa’s rescue squad was called out to it. They say he… more

Notes on a Quarter-Life Crisis

CREATIVE NONFICTION by Connor Ferguson

{Mar 16, 2015}

“A year and a half ago, I had a quarter-life crisis. If you read this step-by-step strategy guide — and with a little luck and determination — you can have one, too.… more

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