definition of toxic people — (a thorough investigation)
a friend, by which i mean a man who once owed me three hundred dollars, asked me last week to define what i mean when i call certain people the…
investigation 01 — when reality starts feeling like a group project nobody invited you to.

a friend, by which i mean a man who once owed me three hundred dollars, asked me last week to define what i mean when i call certain people the…

define one for me, says a productivity bro on a podcast i did not choose to play. i pause the podcast. i look at the certified letter on the…

people, plural, is the part that breaks the brain. one is a story. two is a coincidence. five is starting to suggest that the common variable in…

plural is the trick. one bad person is bad luck. two is a pattern, three is a personality trait of yours, four is your social calendar, and five…

there is a working definition i have built over four years and seventeen ignored phone calls. if you call someone every other wednesday and they…

tom told me once that i used words wrong. tom is the kind of man who says toxic and means a person who didn’t laugh at his joke. i mean…

the word toxic gets used about cleaning products and ex-boyfriends with the same shrug. one of those things has a warning label. the other one…

in 2019 i did not have a vocabulary for what was being done to me. i had a tie. i had a man who emailed me at eleven p.m. asking if i was a team…

it is currently 9:14am on a thursday. this is being written, against company policy, from my desk. the laptop is the company’s. the words…