Author Archives: Catastrophe Jones

About Catastrophe Jones

Wretched word-goblin with enough interests that they're not particularly awesome at any of them. Terrible self-esteem and yet prone to hilarious bouts of hubris. Full of the worst flavors of self-awareness. Owns far too many craft supplies. Will sing to you at the slightest provocation.

Is This Thing On?

I’m not receiving my own content, as a subscriber, to this blog. Something broke, somewhere, and I can’t figure out what. Are you still receiving this? Send me a line catastrophe.jones@gmail.com or post a comment below so I can see … Continue reading

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A Different Set of Scales

I pull it from my lungs, from the seat of me, the floor, the places where there shouldn’t be places of something to accumulate. I want to be grounded, want to have roots but then again I don’t want to … Continue reading

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Spring Cleaning

Too many cobwebs cluttering up BrainTown for the last year. A year ago, I was in isolation, riddled with COVID, miserable and sick for Mother’s Day and my birthday. Everything was bullshit. A year later, I can still feel the … Continue reading

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A Jetpack Plugin Barfed…

…and I hadn’t been able to access the dashboards for this website for quite a bit. It pissed me off, but I couldn’t figure out how to fix it (you have to get to the dashboard to disable the plugins, … Continue reading

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Counting

Jason could feel his heart in his throat again, tight and hot and pounding. He remembered the things his therapist had told him he could do, when he got that feeling. Ground yourself, Dr. Moon had said, by counting the … Continue reading

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