Passing through
Launching into Limbo
Unlike the doorway of my room, the threshold to adulthood is not one you can simply dive right through. In fact, it isn’t even hollow.
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Trusting myself
Sex on Tuesday
I was giving away my power, my independence, my ability to dictate my sex life for myself. I allowed myself to be pushed and pulled like a rag doll.
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It’s just a number
Transfer Talks
I can’t exactly pinpoint what I thought the outcome of attending Santa Barbara City College for all those years would be, yet starting when I was 18, I managed to be enrolled every fall and spring semester at SBCC, varying between part-time and full-time enrollment.
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Let’s just pretend
Launching into Limbo
Granted I am 19 now and spending my days making fake phone calls to people who don’t exist would certainly raise some valid concerns. But those unburdened years — spent pursuing entirely made-up occupations from the comfort of my living room — seemed valuable to me.
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Facets and faces
Sex on Tuesday
I love sex. I love all its facets and faces, velvet touches and carnal ferocity and gushing wetness. And if I’m not fucking you or you’re not fucking me, then fuck your thoughts on who I am.
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Perfect strangers
Launching into Limbo
Plus it really didn’t seem all that “adultlike” to me, having my parents hang around. In fact, the thought of them being familiar with my friends struck me as rather juvenile.
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Love, language and cigarettes
Off the Beat
Platonic love is a slow, sustained burn with bright flashes of color, like throwing salts into a fire. By necessity or otherwise, I think queer people have always known this
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Party for one
Sex on Tuesday
But sometimes I just want to make out with a cutie, get their number (or not), and go home to masturbate and sleep in the comfort of my own bed.
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2 years
Transfer Talks
Community college was supposed to take two years for the average aspiring transfer student. That average wasn’t going to apply to me.
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Inside talk
Launching into Limbo
As in other families, a discussion of ours does not pass without recalling some memory the four of us share.
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