The Other Me
An ongoing serial about neurosis, beginning with anxiety that burgeoned through my teenage years, and grew into issues also with depression and OCD, amongst other things.
The Other Me
‘The Lurking Shadow’ ii. Although I’d graduated at the end of 2008, I re-enrolled in just the one class in 2009 – the Novel class again, because I thought it would help to keep writing. In 2007 I’d adapted one of my screenplays into a novel. In 2008, I’d gotten twenty thousand words into another adaptation. I thought being in the Novel class would push me to keep going. I also went back, on a volunteer basis, to work with the school’s publisher, although this was standard – former students returned to oversee projects that had carried on from one year to the next, and to help oversee and mentor…
The Other Me
‘The Lurking Shadow’ i. A few days after Wolf died, Allie wanted to take me out to cheer me up. I told her I didn’t want to go out if we were just going to thrash out the relationship – again. She told me there wouldn’t be any thrashing but, somehow, that’s exactly what happened – for a couple of hours. And when things were thrashed out with Allie, they were rarely diplomatic. They were heated. Verbally violent, in a way that violence can be passionate. Now, as we argued, my head surged. The next night was little better. There was another argument. I felt my mind tearing in two.…