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What Have I Forgotten Now?
Today was his birthday. I live at the residence where he passed away. -—-The seizures hit me a week ago, causing me to break the toilet seat as I fell to the concrete floor. I'm still sore.--—- The "extended illness" mentioned in my brother's obituary is a euphemism for "years of drug abuse that ended in an overdose." It's curious to me that I've never seen his ghost.
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Poets
Embarrassing Secret
It was a creature of chaos, a devotee of disorder, a purveyor of peril. It was an instigator of insanity. It was older than dirt, tougher than nails, bad to the bone, ugly as sin, a bald-faced liar with a checkered past— to be avoided like the plague. Bent out of shape, a fearsome force to be reckoned with, It was unstoppable, unkillable, unfathomable. It still trafficked in the physical, however...
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Horror
Everyone Happens for a Season
"Watch diligently your DART, because even though it's always sharp, it's occasionally smooth." "The whole torrent with the world is that dips & nitwits are always so flooded w/themselves, while wiser washouts are drained by DROUGHT"
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Poets
A Doctor Drew an Eyeball on My Arm. Top Story - October 2024.
Everything happens at once, right? But everything also happens for a Reason, right? _____ *** Part I ***________ After not having any epileptic seizures for months, I had several Sunday-Monday, 10/5 & 10/6/2024. 😥 I loathe having my brain rebooted. It's awful. Until this week, I had thought I finally had these attacks under control, using my latest prescribed combination of meds. I had just recently published a poem about it here on Vocal—> ⚡ Brain Bursts ⚡
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Psyche
The Meme-ing of Halloween is Candy
Happy Halloween, fearless readers!!! 🎃 🎼🎵🎶 It's the most ghastacular time of the year!! 👻👻👻 This funky, spunky, chunky, phantasmagorical edition of Meme-ing Madness was originally published in the Journal a previous Halloween, before the creation of a Humor Community. This collection of monstrous insanity has been revamped for the holiday at hand! It comes with an especially wicked _____WARNING!!!
By Lightning Bolt ⚡about a year ago in Humor
The Only Thing We Have to Meme are Memes Themselves. Top Story - August 2023.
I've been away for a while. In the past, I have authored a lot of short stories here, especially horror and sci-fi. I also write poetry. I have an FYI series entitled Top 10 Prophets, 👁👁 Prognosticators, & Visionaries. And last year, I compiled a slew of various memes, developing a kind of comedy series, long before Vocal created this glorious Humor Community.
By Lightning Bolt ⚡2 years ago in Humor
