it’s been 3 months, so i’m legally allowed to sharemy first officially published storyfor free. previously published in Massacre Magazine, under the Gorey Skelton pen name
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I’m… shaken. Disturbed? Holy shit.
That is
Holy shit
Read it
my one real goal as a writer is to create content people regret reading
JFC WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR MAGENTA GOURD-BRAIN
I have passive aggressive tendencies related to childhood neglect
That was gorgeous. I have no other way to describe it other than surreal, it made me feel like I was floating. Gaud is a meme but their writing is fantastic.
excuse me i’m a damn *shitpost*
honestly your entire personality is *shitpost* but like kind of deep sometimes
Hey, so, I really…REALLY hate doing this. But I need help.
I’m disabled, and need to get a cleaning service to help make our apartment livable, or else we’re going to end up homeless. Margaret and I are physically incapable of doing the work ourselves, otherwise we would. An hour’s worth of cleaning, for me, is basically ‘sweep the kitchen, wash four dishes, bag up trash.’ It seems super simple and easy, but with my pain levels, I’m lucky if I can manage that on a good day. Some days I can’t even wash the dishes I need to make a single basic meal. We need to get this taken care of, ASAP.
In addition to this, we’re still attempting to live off $100 worth of food stamps for three people. I’ve been living off of boxed pasta, mashed potatoes, and whatever few things I can scrape together otherwise. I’m constantly tired, hungry, and near the breaking point.
The GoFundMe up there is specifically for the cleaning service. I’ll stick on my Paypal.Me link for anybody who wants to donate that way as well, and the Amazon wishlist for food items if anybody feels like sending Things instead of Funds. Please, please share this, even if you can’t donate. If you can click through the GoFundMe link and share to other social media, I would appreciate it SO much. I’m scared, and I don’t want to go through homelessness again.
Thank you so much to the people who have donated and signal boosted! I appreciate it a lot, and I’m trying very hard not to use what funding I have on food at the moment. We’ve got nothing to eat until around the first, and I basically haven’t eaten in about 24 hours.
I’m so close to breaking lately, I keep having to unclench my jaw, drop my shoulders, and remind myself to breathe slowly. I’m so scared that we’re going to get evicted. I’m exhausted, my stress levels are through the roof, I’m constantly anxious and hungry, and I don’t know how much of this I can take.
For the folks who are curious, we had a HUD inspection on the 15th. We failed for mostly reasons we can’t control, but the inspector said we needed to take care of the hoarding problem Margaret has, and do a lot of thorough, deep cleaning that we’re just not equipped physically or financially to handle. We’ve looked at as many avenues for assistance paying for it as we can, but none of them have pulled through. We have until the end of November to get the apartment taken care of, and I’m straight up terrified of failing and losing our apartment.
Please, please keep sharing this, if nothing else.
As you have learned by now, this manual has nothing to do with the upkeep of beasts, but more about the upkeep of human companions. As we all know, the Galactic Assembly does not categorize the human as a Pet species, but there has been some call from nonhuman- coworkers for a manual on dealing with their human companions.
The publishers of this manual were unsure how insulted humans might be on the creation of this manual and therefore put it under a different name for we know that humans have an odd hatred for following concrete instructions, and therefore usually do not read users or construction guides.
We would like to begin by stating a truth universally known: Time and time again, history has proven that an unhappy human is a destructive human. As a super-complex emotional species, the human has many ways of being unhappy, they can be angry, sad, depressed, annoyed, frustrated, hurt, betrayed, or bored.
In turn the influence of their destruction can be wide ranging or even dangerous. The spectrum can range from self destruction all the way to homicide.
Humans are more emotionally complex than any species in the galaxy, but they are also one of the youngest sentient species as well with an extreme connection to their animalistic instincts compared to more evolved species.
Not to say that the human isn’t intelligent. The cortical capacity of a human is as wide ranging as their emotional spectrum. They can range from a low G-6 classification with brain damage to an A-9 genius level.
The human cortical capacity to learn and grow is beyond what we have seen from almost any other species. They need to learn, and they need to be occupied to satisfy the brain, and thus the emotions, in an engaging way. While we will be discussing all classified forms of human negative emotion, we are first going to begin with one of the most dangerous and brilliant of human motivations…. boredom.
Boredom is characterized as the feeling a human gets when they are not being cognitively challenged, and ignoring the signs can have dire consequences.
The inside of a rundi prison couldn’t be categorized as very homey. It was almost…. nothing.
It was the absence of extremes. The white walls reflected all light, the floors were not to hard or to soft, the atmosphere matched average body temperature, There was nothing to look at, and nothing to talk about. There was hardly any background noise at all.
Krill might have found the environment relaxing if it wasn’t for his human companion pacing angrily back and fourth across the cell.
Anxiety-prone-human 