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Chasing Liberation
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Inizia a leggereLunghezza: 61 pagine1 ora
- Editore:
- Brett Bastard
- Pubblicato:
- Dec 19, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780463311677
- Formato:
- Libro
Descrizione
It's off to college for no other reason than it's the logical next step in the programming. On a chase to understand how to fit in, the folly of taking out massive loans to be "educated" highlights the frustration and confusion of wanting something different from life. Without faith in self or friends, I grapple with the need to belong and desire to escape a time and place that doesn't make sense.
Informazioni sul libro
Chasing Liberation
Lunghezza: 61 pagine1 ora
Descrizione
It's off to college for no other reason than it's the logical next step in the programming. On a chase to understand how to fit in, the folly of taking out massive loans to be "educated" highlights the frustration and confusion of wanting something different from life. Without faith in self or friends, I grapple with the need to belong and desire to escape a time and place that doesn't make sense.
- Editore:
- Brett Bastard
- Pubblicato:
- Dec 19, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780463311677
- Formato:
- Libro
Informazioni sull'autore
Brett was born and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado which speaks directly to what is wrong with him. He is an uneducated halfarser who has won no writing awards nor contests. He did however, email poorly structured rants to an email list for longer than was appropriate. Brett also authored a nearly yearlong menagerie of stream of consciousness buffoonery loosely based on dating in your 30's. This was until he knocked a woman up twice, which essentially sent him on a path of scrambling to keep a bunch of other humans alive. In his triumphant return to throwing ink down on tree flesh, Brett has scribbled out his memoirs, at first as a means to give the offspring something to remember him by. Not content with only punishing them with this written slideshow, he is now attempting to pummel the masses with it.
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Chasing Liberation - Brett Bastard
Chasing Liberation
by Brett Bastard
All events herein actually happened and are described as best as the authors complicated mind could muster. Most names and details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals, and to save the author the headache of having uncomfortable conversations with the player in this tale. The chronology is fair but may not accurately reflect the historical past as accurately as I would have liked, but I did my best.
Copyright © Brett Bastard 2018
Cover Design Copyright © Brett Bastard 2018
Published by Brett Bastard – Smashwords Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form on by an electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
ISBN - I've got the same combination on my luggage!
This endeavor is dedicated to my kids.
I love you, and every moment leads back to you.
The closer the calendar was to graduation the less interested in school I became, to the point I completely ignored the no tank tops
rule and wore them daily. I couldn't help myself. The weather was warm, I was developing an envious tan, and everything about my education
seemed asinine. The entire classroom exercise was trivial and meant nothing against the life I saw developing around me.
Even though I had seen a few pieces of the world, from the destitution in Mexico to the ancient ruins of medieval Britain, nothing about my reality seemed to encompass what the adults in my life were telling me was real. I connected more to the sadness and anger of the grunge
scene, the defiance and lewdness of hiphop, and the knowing that if ever I wanted to be free of my poor and lonely life, I was going to have to do something drastic.
I had run the gauntlet of public school and the finish line was in sight. I just needed to hold it together for a few more weeks and then I would be free. I would be a man, and my future mine to craft without any interference from Moms, teachers, school administrators, or even the law. I was chomping at the bit, but at the same time, terrified.
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.
I turned 18 to very little fanfare. The milestone did nothing to help me feel like an adult; there was no magical emergence from a cocoon like a majestic butterfly. I couldn't buy alcohol. I couldn't be on my own. I still had to play the game of attending school and being a halfway decent son. All it really meant was that I could be arrested for my shenanigans and go to real jail for it. At the same time, being an adult did allow me to do one thing Moms would never sign off on.
I got my ear pierced.
In Elden Times a rebel had to be careful. Societal norms dictated that a heterosexual man could only get one earring, and it had to be in the left ear. Having one in your right ear meant you were gay and having both pierced was too confusing. Maybe you were gay, maybe you were just a little queer, maybe you were a pirate. To be safe I got a single fake diamond stud in the left and endured the bitching from Moms.
As prom approached, so too the pressure of once again reaching that transition where I may never see people again. I knew how to stay in touch with my posse, and most everyone else I couldn't care less if I ever saw them again. Still, there was one piece of unfinished business I had to take care of. Despite all the fear, despite how much it all meant to me in the fantasy I built in my head, despite how easy it could be to pretend and live in the maybe and what if, I simply could not let this era end without telling Curly Locks just how I felt about her and hope it would lead to a date to prom.
I wrote a long letter.
I asked Curly locks to go to lunch one day and ambushed her with it. I then sat in agony across from her as she read every word.
I did not get the response I was expecting.
She didn't know what to say other than Thank you.
She didn't feel the same way.
...
I found solace in hard rhymes and copious amounts of alcohol.
I picked myself up and decided to ask someone else to prom. Curly Locks decided to go with one of the stars of the Basketball team. I asked a girl from my Economics class who I thought was cute, but she felt like she was my second choice and declined. With no other options, I decided not to go.
As the date approached, my friends were pressuring me to rethink my stance of not attending. Many of them were going stag too, last hurrah, I would regret not going when I
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