Tragic Hero

I could go on, but I've already reached my required word count, so why bother? Joking! That's a little homework humor for ya. Real...

The boys were number two and three on the list, and now they pee wherever. To this day I still laugh when I think of Sarah telling me abou...

As I said in this post , Catherine Belling , in her paper Overwhelming the Medium: Fiction and Trauma of Pandemic Fluenza , mentions the imp...

Little Leaf Oh! The sun shines on you Little leaf No sign of puffs to cloud your day As you flit as you see fit Little leaf...

It can be a girl's name, too! Rowan was born December 31, 2000-and...uh...2011. That sounds right. She swallowed meconium on the way i...

High school. It was raining of an evening. We were all in a car because where else would we be? I don't know who the 'we' ...

Okay, even if we all know that the story ends tragically with Sarah dying of cancer and me becoming a grad student, the journey to that poin...

Though this seems more likely to cost me marks than gain them, I will briefly mention a theory of Jacques Lacan (all of the best theorists s...

Finn Street Stoned. Sneak in through the basement Are we doing this again? We thrive on the encasement Joke about our kin Ma...

Calvin and Hobbes She's my imaginary too-dead friend And she would blow your mind I know that you can't see her ...

Okay, let's tackle the hard part first. I have to kinda explain what trauma theory is, and, crucially, why I'm using it. Ahem. Tra...