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But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man...

Blake Nelson

But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man...

Tags: depression, guilt, killing, man, murder, responsibility, secret, secrets, survival

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

Blake Nelson

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

About Author
Blake Nelson is an American author of adult and children's literature. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Wesleyan University and New York University. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area.

On Friday night, my dad wants to have a family activity. so we go ice-skating. It's me and my mom and my dad and my sister. It's like we're all together. It's like a beautiful dream. It's like the Dis...

Blake Nelson

On Friday night, my dad wants to have a family activity. so we go ice-skating. It's me and my mom and my dad and my sister. It's like we're all together. It's like a beautiful dream. It's like the Dis...

É o que têm os segredos, acabam por nos enlouquecer. Mas enlouquecem-nos mesmo. Isolam-nos dos outros. Separam-nos da nossa tribo. Acabam por nos destruir. A não ser que uma pessoa seja forte. A não s...

Blake Nelson

É o que têm os segredos, acabam por nos enlouquecer. Mas enlouquecem-nos mesmo. Isolam-nos dos outros. Separam-nos da nossa tribo. Acabam por nos destruir. A não ser que uma pessoa seja forte. A não s...

It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists.

Blake Nelson

It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists.

It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly...

Blake Nelson

It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly...

Tags: humor, sex

It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd...

Blake Nelson

It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd...

If I had to describe Trish, I would say: high school parking lot. She smokes. She wears too much makeup. She probably gives great hand jobs.

Blake Nelson

If I had to describe Trish, I would say: high school parking lot. She smokes. She wears too much makeup. She probably gives great hand jobs.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it turns out. Who knew?

Blake Nelson

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it turns out. Who knew?

I watch Stewart. He has the most interesting face. It is beautiful, young, almost childlike, and yet with a power and authority in his features. In another time he would have been a young warrior, a L...

Blake Nelson

I watch Stewart. He has the most interesting face. It is beautiful, young, almost childlike, and yet with a power and authority in his features. In another time he would have been a young warrior, a L...

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

Blake Nelson

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

Tags: dream, fake, fox tv, real, reality

I said I looked like a dork and she said that was true, but there was something classic about my dorkiness. I was so open and my awkwardness and embarrassment were so clear and understandable. I was e...

Blake Nelson

I said I looked like a dork and she said that was true, but there was something classic about my dorkiness. I was so open and my awkwardness and embarrassment were so clear and understandable. I was e...

That’s the thing: You can change things. You can repair mistakes. You can restart your whole life if you have to.But some things you never get back. Certain people. Certain moments in time when you do...

Blake Nelson

That’s the thing: You can change things. You can repair mistakes. You can restart your whole life if you have to.But some things you never get back. Certain people. Certain moments in time when you do...

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the activist clubs, and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

Blake Nelson

I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the activist clubs, and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.

Tags: life, satire

He holds me. I am his in a way he probably isn't even aware of.

Blake Nelson

He holds me. I am his in a way he probably isn't even aware of.

She had no place on this earth. There was no place where she was comfortable, no place she could relax, no place where she felt safe.

Blake Nelson

She had no place on this earth. There was no place where she was comfortable, no place she could relax, no place where she felt safe.

Those people who look so together. They’re as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You’re as smart as any of them.

Blake Nelson

Those people who look so together. They’re as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You’re as smart as any of them.

This is where I want to be now, alone with myself. Because I know that something has happened to me tonight, something that I’m not going to understand at first, something I need to just absorb and th...

Blake Nelson

This is where I want to be now, alone with myself. Because I know that something has happened to me tonight, something that I’m not going to understand at first, something I need to just absorb and th...

But I let myself love him anyway. I let myself love him with all my heart. I give myself that. I tell myself I deserve it.

Blake Nelson

But I let myself love him anyway. I let myself love him with all my heart. I give myself that. I tell myself I deserve it.

Boys shouldn’t know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your future. You give yoursel...

Blake Nelson

Boys shouldn’t know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your future. You give yoursel...