FUBARgenre: The Genre of Fubar

I am not breaking up with you.

9 years. It’s been a lifetime.

Remember…

I spent most of my early 20s climbing the corporate ladder, my mid-20s scorning it, and now, in my late 20s, I know in my heart that I will never look back. And life couldn’t be any better.

Girl power would be more appropriate if we were…say, girls. Sadly, we are not. Oh, biology would insist that we have the necessary tools. But reason dictates otherwise. There is nothing girly about Bonita and Genee, though the former can wear an all-too-femme mask when the need arises, and the latter can go oh-so-insanely-kikay around [...]

I just need to do this. Pardon the mush.
Thank you:
Mom and Dad for the unlimited supply of gourmet coffee, for looking the other way when I needed to vent, for not pushing me to talk, for understanding that what I needed was solitude and silence, for just letting me be while I was there. I [...]

I don’t really know what to make of this. You decide.
Warning: Adult content follows. Edited for brevity.
Jojo: Honestly, I don’t want you in this world, Yan. My world.
Yan: What is your world like, Jo? Do tell.
Jojo: It’s heartless.
Yan: It’s fun…? hahahah.
Jojo: It’s crude.
Yan: …all the time?
Jojo: Not really all the time. Sometimes, you [...]

I had every intention of staying at least a month in Manila, or long enough to be missed, anyway. It didn’t happen. My so-called sojourn didn’t even last an entire two weeks. I had to come home. Or whatever you call this place where I eat, live, and sleep. I had to come back to [...]

All that drama seems funny now. But while it was unfolding, nobody was laughing. Well, except maybe Gen. But that’s another story.
Speaking of stories, there’s one that needs to be told. But you need to bribe me with lots of alcohol (don’t worry, I’d settle for beer) to get me talking. And, believe me, you [...]

There’s no poetry in torment.
There’s no music in misery.
There’s no art in anguish.
There’s just silence.
And hushed shadows.
And an emptiness that consumes.
and consumes.
and consumes.

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