Leo Birthday
Monday is my 26th birthday, part of what is supposed to be my best birthday month for over a decade, as the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter align in my sign. My early twenties are fully gone; overall, a fun, uncertain decade full of punishment and pleasure and seeking.
Buy Bushwick Nightz
In other news, my story, “The Mistake” has been included in the awesome collection Bushwick Nightz. If you live in NY, you can pick it up at Spoonbill on Bedford Ave, or in Manhattan at The Strand. It’s available at Amazon for my friends who don’t live in this self-centered city. It’s already received a bunch of rave reviews, and The L Magazine included it on their 100 Best Things to Happen in 2014. So pick up a copy and support some local Brooklyn writers. Who knows, if we sell enough maybe I’ll get a book deal for my novel.
The Cleaning Instinct
At least that’s what Mom hopes. She stays with me when she visits during the summer. Pretty sure she gets her kicks from finding really dirty things and cleaning them. Like our toaster, which she emptied the crumbs from into the garbage, gloating about the big chunks stuck to the sides. It’s a strangely human feeling to find something full of waste, and to dispose of it entirely. Like a pus-filled pimple ready to pop. Or a trash bag it takes a long time to fill finally ready to take out. Not the same though if the trash is always full. No, it has to take time to accrete. That’s it, that’s the pleasure. Knowing that we’ve existed and worked at something subconsciously that proves we were alive, living. It is a pleasure joined by cleanliness, the same human instinct that drives us toward light and air. It’s the same kind of feeling with writing, maybe.
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