Victoria Vargas
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Of Being Human and Enduring
Life is so multifaceted. There's so many of us, such a vast number of people in this world living out the best and worst that this human experience can offer. We feel both envious and sympathetic of strangers and peers alike; envy while usually punching up from the bottom rungs of life's ladder as the steps break underfoot. I feel envious, I feel left behind, and I guess this is the grand pity party of my twenties.
By Victoria Vargas4 years ago in Humans
Outrun. Runner-Up in Return of the Night Owl Challenge.
Daddy raised me in back alleys, abandoned hovels, and the backseat of a variety of junkers on their last breath of exhaust. I didn’t know Mama. Daddy said she’s probably dead, of a venereal disease or overdose is anyone’s guess. I like to believe that’s not true, even as youthful naiveté gave way to the more bitter world views of adulthood. Maybe she’s somewhere nice, pretty, living a healthy and picturesque life with a different family set. Maybe she’s in San Francisco, or Aspen. Maybe she skis, or crochets. That’s what I like to believe.
By Victoria Vargas4 years ago in Fiction
