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Archive for January 2005

Electrified

I had been working at the bar for about a year when my boss finally had the confidence to leave me alone during the day shift. During times like these I slowly began to develop my personal theory that the bar had taken on a human-like Jekyll and Hyde persona — some nights it was [...]

A disclaimer

For the last few summers that I was in high school, my mom spent a lot of money to send me to Europe with a company that sponsored educational school-related trips. I went to Greece, Italy, England, France, and all the places in between. I have always kept a journal in which I write extensively, [...]

The miracle of modern medicine

There is no better feeling than the feeling I get when I take off my bra. I spent 45 minutes tonight on my commute home thinking about how good it was going to feel when I finally got home and could change out of my work clothes and take off my brassiere. For the past [...]

My name is MC Speller and I came here to spell

For years, C worked offshore. He went to college on a ship, he’s worked for shipping companies, and he even grew up in the water, on a sailboat his parents navigated from Florida to the Bahamas. In all those years, in all that dangerous work, my boyfriend, Mr. Safety, never sustained a work-related injury. A [...]

A testament to how much my boyfriend truly loves me

C has never had a dog before. In my world, that means he never actually had a childhood, but hey, I don’t judge, unless you’re a cat person, and then that makes you a very, very bad person. So it goes without saying that when my obsessive-compulsive boyfriend allowed not just me to move into [...]