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30 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Something like my little room By choosing this small room everyone could tell I wanted to be alone. And it worked its magic. I had none all summer, except one, the proverbial John Seebach, (like the prodigal son). He visited me one afternoon there...
29 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A likeness of May My journals continue in late April with a full account of my disintegrating relationship with Lindsey: “Of last Sunday night, after working the previous five days, eating and sleeping well, I had it in mind to be high, started Su...
29 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I’ve already mentioned how Lindsey lost all her eight thousand dollars of the first money we made. When she returned our relationship was stormier than ever, but we managed to work together and more than repair her loss. Soon I had triple the cash...
28 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The old vinegar factory In March and April of 85 I slowly began to cultivate a relationship with a minor acquaintance on mine, ‘C’ already mentioned in this narrative unfavorably, but a friend of a friend, met on three or four occasions, who slowl...
27 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lindsey's mother, driven to drink by her children. It was during this first month of our new residence and life together, alone and without Dave, that we were paid a brief visit by Lindsey’s parents, taking a flight from New Jersey. I was at work,...
26 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When Dave mentioned his plan to return home we began to search for another apartment. He needed to go home and Lindsey and I didn’t feel safe on 22nd ave. without him and his Uzi. We found a nice one-bedroom apartment on 11th, ave. and 14th St. Th...
25 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lindsey and I made a temporary truce. She swore she’d never do such a thing again. My two-week trip to Canada also helped calm this upheaval. I knew she was going to sleep with Dave but that didn’t bother me. I liked him more every day, felt for h...
24 Mar 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The red dress The dark clouds gathered over the month of November and finally the storm burst one night in one loud thunderclap. It wasn’t the end. It was the beginning of tearful apologies on one’s knees and pitiful whimpering. I’d never seen thi...
23 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Paris, city of love. Dave told me he became a heroin addict some five years earlier while visiting Amsterdam for six months. His parents were rich and he said his grandmother was one of the richest women in Israel. He was an only child, no sibli...
23 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The line at the Methadone clinic. The only other people we met in those four months was our neighbor, Felicia and her three-year-old daughter. She lived in the unit next to ours. She was in her early twenties, a little overweight but sexy, and our...
