Author: Daniel Thompson
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‘It’s not like it’s going to kill me’
Listen to the author read it to you No, I get it. Don’t touch me, I’m fine. I’m in my 30s and I grew up in the sexually cannibalistic emo cliques of the 2000s that fucked with the emotional weight of borrowing CDs, so I’m used to this sort of coldness. But I never trusted…
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‘I’m sorry that all of that happened to you’
“Your cousin Ben killed himself.” The door was barely closed behind me as the words hit my ears as I walked into my parents’ home. My mother, who dropped the words on me as a normal person would ask how you are, just walked away back to the kitchen without another word. “Well, hello, to…
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The Cruel Carousel
“He’s going to kill me at the end of this.” The realization settles in the same way every time. He’s never thought of my heart, so I don’t have one that can suddenly speed up. However, he’s given me anxiety — or the concept of anxiety as he experiences it. In the past, he’s given…