Way Past Tipsy & Other Silent Cries for Help
Poetry, spoken-word and short stories confronting dark humor with unfiltered honesty.
Genre: Poetry | Spoken Word | Short Story Collection
A collection of poetry and spoken-word pieces that read like late-night honesty: blunt, self-aware, and sometimes darkly funny.
The voice is direct and unromantic about addiction and shame, focused on the moment the jokes stop working and the truth shows up anyway.
Short, sharp, and meant to be read in one sitting or in fragments.
Paperback · 6×9 · 78 pages · ISBN: 979-8869354433
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"She mouthed lyrics and bobbed her head to what looked to be a song. She appeared broke, but happy and in good spirits. I thought about break-checking her so she would rear-end me to get her number. I wasn’t desperate, not yet.'"
“The toilet flushed, and a minute went by. “Daddy, where do toilets come from?”. This is where parenting on weed has its advantages…”
Ceramics of Real Life: Page 30
Listen to an Audio Journey of Selected Way Past Tipsy & Other Silent Cries for Help Stories
Table of Contents: Way Past Tipsy & Other Silent Cries for Help
- Take Her Apart
- NOW
- The Stink
- A Street Divides Us
- Within
- Awake in a Dream
- THEM
- Cosmic Lottery
- Bukowski’s to Henry’s, Henry’s to G-Town
- This is My Home
- A Day in the Life
- The Whisper of an Inorganic Being
- Make My Way Through The World
- A Professional Trying to Work
- Lucid: I will Find Her
- What if?
- Ceramics of Real Life
- Hunter at Heart
- Sonder
- People Are Strange
- Operation
- I’s & o’s
- The Broker
- Emoji’s
- The World We Lost
- Dark Auditorium
- The Handlers & the Sherbert
- The Earth & an Atom
- Over the Shoulder
- Last Page
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Featured Stories
The Handlers and the Sherbert
A strange, pressure-soaked piece where conceptual weirdness and emotional instability keep brushing up against each other.
The Whisper of an Inorganic Being
An off-center, voice-driven piece where atmosphere and abstraction do as much work as plot.
The Broker
A sharper, grounded companion piece shaped by pressure, collapse, and the unsentimental edge running through the collection.
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