Out of My Mind_Ben_Purpose_Engulfed in darkness…and lies
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Out of My Mind
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2:00 AM I finwww.onedoor.ccd my boyfriend standing over my best friend’s lifeless body with a gun in his hand. I don’t even have time to panic, because he has our bags packed in the car and tells me to immediately get out of the house. He has matches in his hand, it smells like gasoline in here now that I think about it. Thirty seconds later, the lake house is in flames behind me and he and I are in the car going anywhere but here. If you had told me two years ago that taking two hundred bucks from my best friend to go talk to him would lead me to this moment, I would have tol...
Ben
I watched as Ben walked across the cafeteria, reached out and plucked a plastic-wrapped two-pack of Oreo cookies from another student’s lunch tray while that student was away from his seat, getting seconds, or a glass of milk or something. I was the teacher on duty and knew Ben. He’s in one of my classes. I intercepted him as he walked back to his seat. “Did you just take that person’s cookies?” I asked, pointing at the unoccupied spot at an otherwise fully occupied lunch table.“Yes,” he said matter-of-factly, stopping.“Does he know that you took them?” I asked.“No,” he answered quickly, as Be...
Purpose
Ah, the eternal warfare between the things I want to do and the things I have to do. I'm not sure what being an adult encompasses, but I know this is a big part of it. I have to clean up the apartment, but I want to stay in bed. I have to get out of bed and start my day, but I want to write this first. I have to write this, but I want to play video games.It's a cold and cloudy Sunday morning in the south of Brazil. It does get chilly in the winter here — which is something that baffles most north-hemisphere inhabitants of this planet: "Really? Brazil? Cold?" Well, it's about forty degrees Fahr...
Engulfed in darkness…and lies
For as long as I can remember, I have been allergic to light. Yes, I said light. This rare and severe allergy is called Solar Urticaria (SU). Whenever I’m in the sun or in a room with lights on or anything, my skin starts to feel like it’s on fire. There’s usually a burning sensation tingling through my skin and red hives climbing up my back like spiders. Having a disease like this means I have no devices, the curtains are closed all the time, and I have no social life. Before it was much different, but because of me everything has changed. When I was just 5 years old, my parents and I went to...