It all started with an agreement to go on a blind date with my best friends cousin. I agreed to placate her to get her off my back so she…

All I wanted was to try this new dare going around, stay awake for 3 days straight. At first I was tired but it was bearable, but soon…

Parents split for many reasons. Not having both parents is disorienting, but it also opens the door for new people to come into your life.

My mother walks the tightrope between strictness and sycophant…without being neither.

(Pre-pubescent) J. A. Cirez falls in love…has his pre-pubescent heart broken andgets a song stuck in is head for the next 40-odd years

I should not have been there. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now I’m tied up in a chair staring at my best friend bleeding to…

When I was about four years old, I was outside in the backyard bathing in a tub and minding my own business when out of nowhere, in comes a…

The relationship between a four year-old Siberian Husky and its equally stubborn owners as an allegory for Nietzsche’s Moral Philosophy

It was a hot summer night, in the midst of another rolling back-out. I was six years old and bored out of my mind…it was dark and humid—to…

Life 2020 Straight Up

When mother died, my father was left with a broken heart. Unable, or unwilling to take care of me, and put me up for adoption.