Anxiety

Ever since i was a skinny little boy i knew i wanted to be a fat large woman

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

(Ideally these stories should be presented in the form of poorly curated anthologies with the most generic titles imaginable, thereby rendering their contents impossible to identify or find later in life and leaving the affected individual wondering whether they dreamed the whole thing.)

Since we're sharing our personal white whales in the notes, mine is one I read when I was like ten about a boy who travels to a post-apocalyptic future where rising sea levels have caused humanity to evolve into fish-people, has a whirlwind romance with a local girl, then resolves to travel back to his own time and prevent the apocalypse, only to discover that his fish girlfriend has destroyed the time machine while he slept. He has a mental breakdown and the story just ends. Thirty years later and I still have no idea who wrote it or what it's called – not for lack of searching!

Thought I didn't have one then remembered a short book I read as a teen where a boy reaches puberty and starts turning into a werewolf, and then it ended with him breaking down the door to his dad's study where his parents are hiding from him only to discover his dad is a big game hunter and has the stuffed heads of all his kills on the walls, two of which are the heads of adult werewolves who were his actual parents. Then he willingly gives over to his werewolf instincts and leaps at his parents while his dad aims a gun at him and it just ends there. Wild stuff.

Sadam HATE this hole

This is what happens when a cave diver DOESN'T have a young wife, two kids, and a third child on the way back home.

i have GOT to get back to my nothing

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Have you ever seen a trans woman smile. Oh my goodness.