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A Decade of Dying
My 2010–2019, as seen on the internet.
[Author’s Note: This was the longest con. I wrote a memoir of my life throughout the 2010s (with some mild backtracking for context). Much of it eventually ending up on Medium — in scrambled order, in full public view. Today, I present its entirety as one final, exhaustive, impenetrable piece — at long last, in chronological order.
This is the story of a lovesick, anxious, anonymous, unremarkable Rust Belt gutter-punk white-boy who moved from Buffalo to Austin and changed his life —For better? For worse? Perhaps a lot of both? — one essay at a time, and a recap of the lessons he learned along the way.
This is the story that nobody asked for and no one wanted — a colossal, 20-part delusion of grandeur befitting the commemoration of a decade’s end. Will you dare to read it all? Even worse, what if you already have?]
