Dear Dreadful Diary, I fear the time to depart is fast approaching. I keep seeing signs everywhere I look. In the garden, in my stews, even in the clouds! Although I can’t help but feel that my family might be being a bit dramatic. They’ve made the clouds appear so dark lately. I keep seeing shapes in these gloomy clouds. X’s and inverted horseshoes and so many crows. Although crows aren’t necessarily bad luck unless in a specific amount and I did count them! But nothing ther

Spineless, they called me. A wimp. A sissy. Unable to hold my own in a world where playgrounds are battlefields and workplaces are battlefields and even our hobbies so often become gates to break down and spaces where we're told we don't belong. Spineless. Boneless. Flimsy. Floppy. A collection of meat and fat masquerading as a man. I have so many spines these days, though. And the jawbones that made the insults possible and the knuckles that bruised my face. The