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I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair...

Michael Thomas Ford

I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair...

Tags: anorexia, arsonist, arsonists, bulimia, crazy, depressed, depressives, drug, druggie, drugs

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was...

Michael Thomas Ford

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was...

Tags: alice in wonderland, angel and demon, art, back, bipolar, deep, depression, illustrations, lewis carroll, light

About Author
Michael Thomas Ford (born October 1, 1968) is an American author of primarily gay-themed literature. He is best known for his "My Queer Life" series of comedic essay collections and for his award-winning novels Last Summer, Looking for It, Full Circle, Changing Tides, and What We Remember.
Michael Thomas Ford is the author of more than fifty books for both young readers and adults. He is best known for his best-selling novels Last Summer, Looking for It, and Full Circle and for his five essay collections in the "Trials of My Queer Life" series. His work has been nominated for eleven Lambda Literary Awards, twice winning for Best Humor Book and twice for Best Romance Novel. He was also nominated for a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award (for his novel The Dollhouse That Time Forgot) and a Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for his short story "Night of the Were Puss").

When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more than anything that one day I'd just change into this other person. I thought that would explain everyth...

Michael Thomas Ford

When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more than anything that one day I'd just change into this other person. I thought that would explain everyth...

Tags: depression, loneliness, michael thomas ford, sad, suicide notes, superhero

I didn't ask to be saved

Michael Thomas Ford

I didn't ask to be saved

Tags: suicide

Then he asked me which one I thought was most likely to happen. I wish I knew. I really do. But I don’t. You’d think that after living with these people for fifteen years I’d know a little something a...

Michael Thomas Ford

Then he asked me which one I thought was most likely to happen. I wish I knew. I really do. But I don’t. You’d think that after living with these people for fifteen years I’d know a little something a...

Tags: life and death, life, suicide notes, understanding oneself and others

Düşünün. İdam mahkumlarını, daha sonra öldürebilmek için ölümü bekledikleri sırada canlı tutuyorlar. Mahkumları, zamanı geldiğinde yargılayabilmek için intihar etmesinler diye gözetim altında tutuyorl...

Michael Thomas Ford

Düşünün. İdam mahkumlarını, daha sonra öldürebilmek için ölümü bekledikleri sırada canlı tutuyorlar. Mahkumları, zamanı geldiğinde yargılayabilmek için intihar etmesinler diye gözetim altında tutuyorl...

Tags: intihar, not

Fuck! he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for man...

Michael Thomas Ford

Fuck! he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for man...

Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn’t want to be – the funny old queen whose jo...

Michael Thomas Ford

Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn’t want to be – the funny old queen whose jo...

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

Michael Thomas Ford

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work.What might look like the pe...

Michael Thomas Ford

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work.What might look like the pe...

Tags: comparison, depression, feel, feeling, happiness, human, life, people, perfect life, reflection

I love that word. Gaydar. So clever.I’m afraid mine is broken, Burke said. It never occurred to me that you were gay.It’s because I’m teeming with masculinity, Gaither joked.

Michael Thomas Ford

I love that word. Gaydar. So clever.I’m afraid mine is broken, Burke said. It never occurred to me that you were gay.It’s because I’m teeming with masculinity, Gaither joked.

Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But o...

Michael Thomas Ford

Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But o...

He’s afraid they’ll tell their kids to stay away from him and cross the street when they see him. Don’t talk to the crazy man, honey. He might bite you.Coming from someone covered in tattoos, this see...

Michael Thomas Ford

He’s afraid they’ll tell their kids to stay away from him and cross the street when they see him. Don’t talk to the crazy man, honey. He might bite you.Coming from someone covered in tattoos, this see...

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can’t it just be something that happens?

Michael Thomas Ford

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can’t it just be something that happens?

If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don’t you think they’d be selling it?I don’t think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.

Michael Thomas Ford

If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don’t you think they’d be selling it?I don’t think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.

I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'...

Michael Thomas Ford

I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'...

I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn't really make up for being screwed up in the first...

Michael Thomas Ford

I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn't really make up for being screwed up in the first...

Where’s the skill in throwing a hook loaded with tempting bait into the general vicinity of lots of perpetually hungry creatures with brains the size of mustard seeds? You might as well go to a playgr...

Michael Thomas Ford

Where’s the skill in throwing a hook loaded with tempting bait into the general vicinity of lots of perpetually hungry creatures with brains the size of mustard seeds? You might as well go to a playgr...

You either are or aren't

Michael Thomas Ford

You either are or aren't

People always say they want to hear the truth, but they really don't

Michael Thomas Ford

People always say they want to hear the truth, but they really don't