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Homecoming

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 - by Typewriter Fox

Heading back again across county lines a bitten straggler. Just a dirty, exhausted Boulevard Boy limping back to where he doesn’t really belong. Not the homecoming once imagined. That foolish ideal was born years ago––an unearned right surrendered to the whims of violence. But in those adrenaline tainted moments of its birth, just the idea of that ideal was enough to help keep me alive. Because it meant that in some improbable way, I was actually wanted. And that everything I had sacrificed somehow mattered. But then came that night when I should have died. That changed everything. And afterwards, not much else seemed to really matter. Including me. Somewhere between those extremes, I was left an intimate trespasser. A sweaty nightmare …

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Flapper Dreams and Other Strange Things

February 13, 2022 - by Typewriter Fox

There is nothing worse than finally meeting the woman of your dreams, in your dream, only to wake up and realize that you’ll never see her again. And just to twist the knife a little bit more, when you do finally wake up, there are messages waiting. Messages from a girl who has come the closest so far to meeting the imaginary benchmarks set inside the unpredictability of those dreams. Much of it was washed out and ethereal, as dreams often tend to present themselves. But some of the specifics stuck inside my head–hard. And their lingering presence made me ache desperately to return to their simple, uncomplicated joy. We were browsing at some ridiculously large antique mall. Obviously on the hunt …