Would you want someone to call you a fag? Your son, your mate? “Bum a fag”, means an entirely different thing in the UK than elsewhere, to be sure, because there the term “fag” is slang for cigarette. But the most commonly known reference for the word, especially in the USA, is used to derogatorily […]
Category: Personal Entries
Poem: Dementia by Red Haircrow
DEMENTIA I have gone mad and shall die that way. I have felt the murderous legends move. Wild with misery, misery, misery, agonies of then, that time in the dark when passion and sin and brutality ruled the night: And took and took my soul, my life. This is the poem I wrote as a […]
Photos: Lakeside at Scharmützelsee, Germany -“The Last of the Ice”
With warmer temperature currently being experienced, only in the single digits and rain intermittently washing away the snow, Scharmützelsee is slowly returning to its totally liquid state, but I was fortunate to arrive the day before the weather changed. I was lucky to be able to take more photos of the ice, before it changed. […]
Photos: Frozen Scharmützelsee, Germany: Winter 2012
As we walked over the frozen lake, our steps making a special sound that prompted my friend to share with a smile: “This is the sound of my childhood.” And snow does have different sounds as you walk upon it. In the three days I was in Bad Saarow-Pieskow I could tell the difference. In […]
The Story of a Bullied Gay Teen: “They Said I Was Weak”
“One day when my dad said he wanted to play me a song I hadn’t heard in a long time, that I used to like so well, I was excited, wondering what it would be. But as soon as I heard the first notes, it was like someone punched me in the stomach. Tears filled […]
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