Leif Conti-Groome
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Leif Conti-Groome is a writer/playwright/gamer whose work has appeared on websites such as DualShockers, Noisy Pixel, and DriveinTales. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada and makes a living as a copywriter and copyeditor.
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It was early on a holiday. 10 year-old girls were supposed to like early and like holidays. Koza kicked her Bryght Betty doll as she made her way to her en-suite bathroom. Her toys no longer interested her. She would give this one to Corita but her caregivers insisted that while they all were to have identical playthings, they always had to have new ones of their own. Quora still had her Bryghts somewhere in her closet.
By Leif Conti-Groome4 years ago in Humans
Broadside
Broadside Silver, dark, custed-up, ancient ashtrays needed to make a comeback. Hot rods needed to make a comeback. Cram soared along the empty highway, pushing 130. One of the benefits of being in this county for his entire life was that he knew when and where the porkos would be. If a serial killer ever figured out their simple and unrefined routines of Milligan and his bootlickers, there’d be a lot of bodies piling up. Fuck, they wouldn’t even notice unless the person was a) white, b) an attractive woman, and c) someone they knew.
By Leif Conti-Groome4 years ago in Fiction
Discarded Masks of Creativity
I have a lot of time for walks these days. I was unfortunately laid off late last year due to the pandemic and, well, so have a lot of others. This means a lot of other competition on the job market; a lot of lost souls wandering my residential neighbourhood as well. I don’t always see these vagabonds, these shadows in the night. But the marking is always there. Well, masking might be the better word.
By Leif Conti-Groome5 years ago in Lifehack
Get Lucky - Number Seven!
I don’t want to admit how many hours I lost to researching tunes and bands for this article. There’s a lot of stuff out there to sort through, even if you restrict yourself to artists you know and ones that have some element of queerness attached to them. But it was fun going back and listening to all this amazing stuff and realizing a lot of these back catalogues, side-projects, or even new albums I had no idea existed! I felt lucky revisiting parts of my childhood, teenage years, twenty-somethings, adulthood, and post-adulthood where I realize that it will never be possible for me to be what the past generation thought an adult should be.
By Leif Conti-Groome5 years ago in Pride
Metal Health will Drive you Mad
I was in my Italian grandparent’s old, brown Ford LTD, in the backseat. Even though the Sun was high in the sky and the cloud coverage was minimal, I was still enshrouded in a type of darkness. An overhang jutted out from the funeral parlour over the temporary parking spot. I was tucked into the uncomfortable vinyl crevice, trying to be as insignificant as possible. Sweat ran down my back underneath my jean jacket (unfortunately with no patches… I was too scared to try and ruin the perfect balance of a fading coat). The white collar of my dress shirt underneath poked out to remind me of the formality of the whole affair.
By Leif Conti-Groome5 years ago in Beat
Snotty-Nosed Brat
I was a challenging kid. I was often withdrawn, played with my toys a lot, was moody and emotional, and I could throw a temper tantrum like no one else. I was sensitive and awkward and had learned whether through nature or nurture to avoid conflict. Sure, I was bullied at school, but I was in the middle rungs of the social ladder. I often found it easier to get along with my teachers than my peers and I had a good rapport with most of them.
By Leif Conti-Groome5 years ago in Confessions
