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Sky Burton

One Night in New Orleans

Chapter 7 - One Night in New Orleans

Sometimes the pain of the world — of friends and family seems as far away as the stars and other times it feels like a breath on my cheek , that with the next inhale I will be thrown over the edge of sanity into a dark forest full of monsters I will recognize.

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Bugs, Scorpions & the Existential Spider: A Love Letter to Costa Rica

I woke up around 3 AM with a tickle on my leg. Something was crawling under the sheet. I threw off the sheet and there it was: a thumbnail-sized black spider, just chillin’ on my thigh like it paid rent.

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People in Parking Lots

He was a 40-something with a shiny silver BMW convertible and teeth that looked like they’d been Photoshopped. He pulled up next to me, locked eyes, and delivered his question like a missile: “Why are you doing this?”

Frequencies And Cosmic Subtitles

Frequencies And Cosmic Subtitles

I’m not the type to leap headfirst into claims about interdimensional portals or cosmic vibrations. At least, I wasn’t back then. These days, my beliefs hover much closer to just north of woo-woo.

Animals fighting

A Punch in the Face

I saw a man get punched once — a perfect hook to the cheek on a bone-cold morning near the McCormick Center in Chicago.

Open Pockets —End of an Era

Open Pockets —End of an Era

My world feels like open pockets in my favorite jacket — that oversized denim patchwork thing. I looked down at its comfortable form and put my hands in those big pockets and realized how it has defined me, you know, if I was fabric.

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What You Hear When You Silence All Those Voices

I became wild. Then I became wise. Resilience crept up on me, originally disguised as arrogance, though it wasn’t about feeling superior to anyone — it was about knowing, with certainty, that I stood alone.