unravel me
This is "slapdashmonuments" creating a new Ficlatte account for the purpose of trying to write some Choose Your Own Adventure stories using Ficlatte's sequeling features. I'll tag work-in-progress parts WIP until the whole story is ready to play.
The first full story, "Burning Questions," is available now:
https://ficlatte.com/stories/41125
unravel me without delay
with batting thread and macrame
my mental health's unmade today
and rapidly I start to fray
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the stomach acids eat at me
my eyes lose focus and can’t see
my skin is sloughing off so free
cascades of wellness one two three
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today’s a beating black and blue
a summons throws me far from you
a creep invades; what can i do?
I fall, I’ve landed in the stew
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this doggerel is all I’ve got
at low heat, boiling in the pot
there’s stress and blame, yes quite a lot
I jingled; then I got upsot
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I just don’t know if I can solve
these crises. let the world revolve
without me now. let me dissolve
I fray, I flee, I’m through, I rot
And none shall me absolve
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Comments (3 so far!)
AdventuresAndSearches
Jim, you definitely have all my empathy on that. It's so unfair and rotten to know someone who's a worthy good person has to suffer in these ways, but at the same time, it was such a relief back in 2010 to realize that other people have the same sorts of experiences as I had been having, that I wasn't alone, and that others could understand. That I wasn't just a unique sort of anomaly, a freak or a weirdo (in a bad way; I am also a weirdo in good ways)!
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AdventuresAndSearches
Guess who forgot we can message people now! It's me!
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Jim Stitzel
Bleak, but oh, so relatable. For those of us who suffer with mental illness, most days are challenging to get through. It's a slog, but it's a slog worth fighting through.