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It took until my late twenties for all of my excessive bad habits to catch up to me. And, it was two years after that before I started (trying) to improve my health in different ways; LASIK, Yoga, trying (and failing) to quit smoking. These four essays reflect milestones in this process and they were […]
My latest article about getting LASIK eye surgery in South Korea has now been published in Human Parts: That Time I Got My Eyeballs Lasered in South Korea The teddy bear was a surprise. They dressed me in a blue robe and squirted a bucket-load of anesthetic into my eyes. Two nurses led me into […]
Today I am launching The Uninvited Guests illustrated by Nastia L. “Five strange guests visit the bedroom of a young man throughout a long cold night in Saint Petersburg, Russia” uninvited-guests.com This will be an ongoing project that will span five months of Patreon projects. There will be updates, bonus content, and it will be […]
He was wearing jeans, a HARVARD sweatshirt, and His name was Abu. He was floating twenty feet above the Chrysler building.
It was a squirrel. And, to his credit, the doctor did say it was a trained squirrel before he let it loose. I was on the table as he said it and I thought back to my early twenties. “I’ve got a stomach of steel!” I’d told my friend who’d just poured me a shot of hot […]
Relationship Humor: The Truth about Farting in Front of Loved OnesA Cautionary Tale Amazon Alexa, My Girlfriend and I are in a Love TriangleWe stood over the metal salad-mixer-bowl as my girlfriend, Y, dropped a match and set my gasoline-soaked Amazon Echo 3 Times I Tried to Find my Girlfriend’s G-Spot(and failed) No Eulogy for […]
I stood in the swank lobby of a SoHo high-rise arguing with the domesticated ex-marine leashed to the front desk. He had a hole-punch of a mouth and little black eyes. His name was Jim. I pointed at my face. “Jim, you’ve seen my face a thousand times. Look!” I pulled at my nose, eyelids, […]
A small man stood in my driveway. He was waiting for me. He pointed. He had eyes like flying saucers and no nose. He said, “I AM KLUBBIT!” He had a French accent. I walked outside. The sun pounded on the poor little man. “What do you want?” I asked. “I have to get to […]
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What really happened on the day the tortoise beat the hare? The Fox and the Bear is live on Patreon! https://patreon.com/benjamindavis This project was actually 10 years in the making. I wrote it back in College and I had to read it as part of my final to a class of very serious writers. The […]
