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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Big oof. This one slaps in a very personal way that I can't really explain at this time of the morning.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

One date and no sleep and this is the shit that my skull screams

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Jesus fucking Christ man, get some Xanax.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Oh man if I could I probably would

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

I'm whittling my way down from a dosage my general practitioner put me on (to be fair, it was best for everyone involved) that my psychiatrist (new as of last year, but very much knows his shit) says is "incredibly unethically high." We're working on it, but it's not like I'm telling him that I have access to as much extra pharma as can be afforded. I think psychiatrists at this point should just assume any of their patients on controls know where to get them on the street by now. To think otherwise is sort of foolish.

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Kevin Maher's avatar

Every man should have access to at least a couple of Valium of Xanax or Valium per day. For life, if needs be. A lot more people would still be around if they could have just slowed their out of control negative thoughts down for a few hours, and maybe had the ability to have a bit of sleep, or a light meal, snack, whatever. The small things mean so much when you don’t or can’t have them.

I liked this one, George. Talentless is a bit of a stretch, isn’t it? It has a near future vibe to it. A kind of jaded, everything has been done, …what’s next that will garner some eyeballs?.. vibe.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

What’s next ? No clue just writing what I see

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Kevin Maher's avatar

I think that’s for the best.

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Jack Jackson's avatar

Jerry’s looks like giving up feels. Ah, I know about the plans. One every day. A lot of them the same, somedays different. Thanks George. Keep writing.

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Chandra's avatar

…jesus fuck

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Moon Arica's avatar

This is too good!

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Krspeace's avatar

They didn't lie....you shard them! They can chill

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Ira C. Zipperer's avatar

Intense and engaging. I feel I was there.

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Derek Lakin's avatar

Incredible. Thank you for having the courage to spill your suffering onto the page.

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Zani D's avatar

There's absolutely nothing I can say to make this better.

I don't know you.

Even if I did, that's not how I operate.

But you know why you need to be here. I'm sure some days you can't stand it.

I know I can't.

But we made choices.

And those choices have life too.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

True dat .

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Marianne Weiss | OneNightScent's avatar

i have no words, thank you for yours… feeling you…

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C.S. Mee's avatar

I wasn't expecting that ending. really great writing, George.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Me neither

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Zani D's avatar

jesus fucking christ

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Feels that way right now

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Fun to write . Stoked to do more

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Damn. Thanks for this. Making me think harder about a v2. But this was fun exercise for me to do . Maybe I’ll share a v2 next week

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George Kalantzis's avatar

All good . And this was a fun writing exercise for me . I’m not doing anything with it. Maybe I’ll start short stories weekly. I start an MFA program in January and I’ll see how that goes

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Caz Hart's avatar

They don't ruin enough of them.

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Never…they accepted an example essay so it’s on

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George Kalantzis's avatar

Govt is paying for like 3/4 of it so why the fuck not

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