Dead Donkey Vanity

Last November I wrote a novel for nano wrimo and I managed to get to the 50k word count in time. Unfortunately for me, my laptop crashed a little bit later and the whole thing got swallowed up. If I were one to get attached to things this might have got me a  more annoyed than it did, but I'm not an it didn't. If anything, it kind of made me happy that I didn't have a piece of work that I wasn't at all pleased with hanging over my head while I tried to start the unenviable process of editing. Like trying to mold a dog shit into the Venus di Milo, I didn't have the strength. But I have chapter one squirreled away so I thought I'd post it.


Dead Donkey Vanity is about lesbians,Chanel lipstick, serial killers and how much university sucks when you go into it hoping to make a fresh start before you realize you're just an asshole like everyone around you. I guess the alternative title is: If You Hated School, You'll Despise Life but Really Fucking Love Cunnilingus which is a short story I think I will have to write now.

Ulterior Motives

I keep finding reasons not to submit my short stories into my University's Creative Arts Magazine, which is called Helicon and is just fantastic. This one was finished a month before the deadline and a month before the deadline I decided it wouldn't be suitable- I believe 'too long and too gay' were the reasons for this one while Olanzapine Wasteland was 'too hairy'. Still it's probably better to think of your work as 'too much' of something' as opposed to not enough of something else.
'Too gay, too hairy and too long' makes me feel edgy in my own mind while I'm shit scared of 'not enough talent' being the reason I get rejected. One day I'm going to get this mental block down. But until then this is called Ulterior Motives and it's too long and too gay to submit to a magazine but just fine for here.

Olanzapine Wasteland

I think that drugs are beautiful. And by that, I mean their names. Text speak and slang is dumbing us down, but science is getting more poetic everyday. The psychiatric drugs are some of my favorites with antidepressants such as Citalopram, Sertraline and Mazindol which roll off the tongue like characters from a fantasy novel. Fluoxetine is a hideous, horrible drug which in every case I've seen (and they hand it out like candy around here) including my own has done more harm than good but I'll be damned if it doesn't sound exotic.

I won't take meds anymore, though I'm sure there are doctors who'll tell me I should- but I love the way that they look when written on a prescription pad.

Olazanapine Wasteland is the story under the cut. It's about people I know and about antidepressants.