The conclusion of Making Illness Payoff
This is the conclusion of making Illness Payoff, continued from part 3 which can be read here. I wasn’t in the emergency room for very long, as soon as I made my way through the metal detector and into...
View Article23 Faces of a Creep
Where does the artistic idea begin? I have been asking that question for as long as I have been a writer. For most of my life, I have struggled with finding the perfect balance between reality and the...
View ArticleThe Downward Spiral of Being Homeless
For being late May, it was pretty warm as I slowly walked back to the Denver homeless shelter, sadly this is where I lived. I was feeling less pitiful today, mostly because I had spent a considerable...
View ArticleBroken Discourse
There are vital limits to every broken discourse, & not even the king can put Humpty back on his fucking wall, or on his skateboard… Because only cool kids ride on skateboards, unless they are also...
View ArticleYou Meet the Nicest People in Shitty Motels
I don’t know how I got to this place I am now in, maybe it is just how it is supposed to be, does it really matter now that I am no longer homeless? While I think it really and truly does, all I do...
View ArticleThe Heart Attack Diaries!
Heart attack?? Not me! The last thing I remember is I was in a truly beautiful and restful sleep or so I thought; I was admitted to the ICU ward at the McLaren hospital, in Petoskey because I had some...
View ArticleIgnorant People Should Not Breed
I really don’t like to use my site as a soap box for subjects other than my life experiences while I was homeless, but I need to vent about the pure ignorance of some people who dare call themselves...
View ArticleStreet Life, A Red Bicycle & the Insanity of Guilt
This story is a brief glimpse into some of the reasons I found street life, drugs, and alcohol a viable remedy for the inner torment that innocently began as a wonderful birthday gift from a father to...
View ArticleThe Inconvenient Truth Of Homelessness
By Rob Fleming Not too long ago the idea of homelessness was synonymous with referring to a select minority of society such as wineos, vagrants, bums and other dregs of society. The Inconvenient Truth...
View ArticleCommon Sense Revisited
By Rob Fleming If it wasn’t for Thomas Paine’s love of America or the fact that long before his perfect ideal as a loyal British subject was shattered, Thomas Paine would have never written “Common...
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