Addiction

Duke brings his voice down to a whisper and quietly tells Apollo, “….he’s all wrong for us, baby.” Apollo snorts and avoids Duke’s eyes. “I saw you beat that man…..like I never saw no man [...]

I had been looking forward to my time with Mike for months. He’s the real life sensei: Yoda to Luke, Gandalf to Frodo, Mr. Miyagi to Daniel, Dumbledore to Harry, Mickey to Rocky. He’s facilitated [...]

I met a millionaire whose older brother was in jail for dealing drugs and murder. They had almost identical beginnings: they both grew up in the same battered woman’s shelter and mixed the [...]

I don’t think I’m going to make it… The leather recliner felt like quiet quick sand. Exhaustion wrapped its arms around my gut and tried to swallow me whole. I could feel discouragement creeping [...]

He felt over the ring box in his pocket a thousand times that day to the airport. She drove; he imagined: the warmth of the sand as he knelt down, the sound of those four words spilling out of [...]

“This is literally the last cigarette I’ll ever have, I swear.” We all rolled our eyes. Our friend, Daniel, was a habitual quitter. I mean, he was really good at it because he quit smoking almost [...]

“I can’t even be with a girl intimately without thinking about porn…” I gesture for him to continue and he does. “In order to even get-off I have to think about the scenes I watch alone in front [...]

When Jake Luhrs heard from fans about their struggles–addictions, abuse, depression, self-harm–he couldn’t leave them to struggle alone. Join Jake on Steve Brown, Etc. as he [...]

The couch was from IKEA. It was purchased as white, but over the course of living by myself in that quadruplex on Polk St., it had turned a slight beige. The sun would bear down on it during the [...]