Krystle

  • Waiting for Splendour Tickets

    Oh evil progress bar, why do you mock me
    with your to-ing and fro-ing?
    I sit here,
    Watching my life tick by
    In the 30 second increments
    You have allotted me.
    While you
    Frolic and play.
    Ac…

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  • A very uninteresting girl

    When Tatum was a little girl, she would take her father’s whiskey tumblers and put apple cider vinegar in them and pretend that it was alcohol. She would sip her drink and have very refined convers…

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  • Ryan

    I’ve spent the last five years of my life taking drugs.
    Five years.
    And now I’ve stopped.
    It’s been six weeks now and I’m at a stage where I can see clearly enough the situation I’m…

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  • The Secret to Happiness

    What do you do when you work out that life, the world and everything you have done or ever will do is pointless?

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  • Caught

    _“Its not death that should be feared but rather life. Death is a blessing. When life gets too much, too painful, death comes and takes it away. Death is a healer. It heals us of life. But who …

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  • Under the Surface

    Kierra’s sixth grade teacher told her that she was ‘phenomenally intelligent and mature beyond her years’. From that point on, she devoted herself to living up to that remark. She considered herself…

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  • The day I died

    You know there’s something wrong when your boyfriend is lying in bed next to you, dying, and you don’t take him to the hospital because you’re too fucked up from all the drugs you took the night…

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  • Descent

    You lie back on your pillow. It’s been a big night. You knew you wouldn’t be able to sleep, so you figured you may as well experiment a bit (The benefit of having a room-mate who’s a med stude…

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  • First Kiss

    I spent most of my childhood alone. I had a step brother who was much older than me. He had to go to a mental hospital when I was five. He was in and out of them for a while after that. I don’t …

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  • Coffee Shop Philosophy

    You know those people who sit in cafés with their laptops? I was on my break one day and I sat and watched this guy for nearly an hour while I had lunch. It was really entertaining watching his fac…

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  • Strange Things Happen Outside My Window

    My Mum and Dad never seem to be happy. They used to argue all the time, but now they just ignore each other. It’s mainly Dad I think. He never even looks at her. They don’t talk to me much eit…

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  • DAMIENISM - A nihilistic approach to life

    For me, Damien was an escape into a world where nothing mattered. In his world, I didn’t have to do anything or be anything. And it was all justified by these vague references to the great things we…

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