Joe Favalaro is a published novelist, poet, screenwriter and songwriter/musician from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada trying to fill the gaps between what pains us and what holds us tenderly.
I was creating something so this skin could move through the world like a phantom. Something that would protect me as I hid beneath the surface of whatever I’ve become.
Sadness is inherent to every seed. When the flowers come, they'll be for graves or grace. No one knows.
... there is nothing more cruel than spending an eternity subjected to never-ending positivity.
The half-written page in front of my eyes turns to black and mocks me like a childhood bully who knows just the right pairing of words to scar me for an entire summer.
I took a pickaxe to the wall of the well and climbed out, slowly, to find the voice I always had but never listened to.
As my heart continued to drum, my mind slowly went to a place where I became uncomfortable in my skin.
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