My New Life
by Zampano
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The Door to the Netherworld of Obesity
I had made a good life for myself. I was kicking ass at my job. I was hitting the yoga mat hard almost everyday. I was on cloud 9. The state of serenity was magical. The sleep was even better. Ev...
Memoirs of Marginalized Health Advocates
By the time I was 13 I was 200 pounds and depressed. I ordered tacos from Taco Bell with no lettuce; just meat and cheese, and sweet cereal for breakfast. I was bullied and belittled by my brothe...
Great News, The Modernist's Icarus and Music Boxes
My youngest biological sibling, A_, has preposed to his girlfriend and she said yes. I’m proud of him. I really am. He and I were close during the good times back at home on our cattle and tobacc...
The Good Earth, Bad Literature and Life's Ugly Truths
“Why is it that we teach the worst novels by the best authors in school?” -The Squid and the Whale I have read over 500 novels in my life. And they were not the paperback westerns you see in truc...
Long Covid, Literary Transcendence and Nursing School
About 7 months ago I had been contracted to build stairs for my apartment complex. I work for my landlady occasionally. I did the project by myself hoisting very heavy timber, climbing up, and do...
My roommate A_ from UnderGrad was my best friend, piano teacher, and intellectual counterpart. He would teach me what he was learning as a Piano Performance major, and I in turn would teach him w...
Book Description
Tales of terror, and horror vanishing, clearing, absconding, being ripped out; pulled like weeds, and wiped clean like a dry erase board. My new life, Henry Pu Yi uttered as his Emperor status was stripped away: I’m a simple gardener.