hello all

we are currently in a temporary living accommodation with a friend/acquaintance. we managed to get all our important things into storage, and have escaped our previous scary landlord/tenancy situation.

then our paypal was locked for such a high volume of donations.

yes, you literally helped us so much it broke the internet.

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this will be our last update unless something goes right or majorly wrong

we still do not have a reliable place to stay. we know someone who has said we can stay with them, but it doesn't seem like they are going to come through for us. we have an interview with two potential renters tomorrow, but we are scared they will not work out.

currently we also do not have anywhere to store our things. we do not have much, but our books take up a lot of space.

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hello. here is what happened so far:

- our roommate helped us and we cloistered in their room with them for a bit
- we did some research on our rights but it was not very helpful. we live in canada so laws are different than in the states, and we also share a bathroom/kitchen w/ our landlord and are therefore not covered under the residential tenancy act. our protections seem very minor, thusly

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about half an hour ago a scary person who said he was our landlord's brother and owns the house came to yell at us. he offered us our month's rent to get out overnight or he said he was going to call the police. then he said he was leaving and would be back in an hour.

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hello all. it feels pertinent to provide a last update some time after our most recent crisis, so here is that.

firstly, and we feel extra stupid saying this as a 'writer', we have no idea how to express our gratitude in words. the sheer generosity and kindness of the folks in the community is overwhelming, and it makes us want to do something special to show our gratitude for all the kind souls who were able to help us out during our time of crisis.

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Hello all. We weren't sure when or if to post this blog or not, but it seems the longer we wait without doing anything, the less likely things are to work out, so maybe we will just give it a shot.

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just a mental image that makes me want to end it all, as usual

six days until christmas, we haven't done our shopping yet

we used to go to our mom's place for the holidays. we would see our sister and the cats and exchange presents and have a lot of a hard time breathing around our mom's second-hand smoke and the musty trailer full of cats and dust.

we would always get nice presents, but as we grew up, it became harder and harder to know what to get for people.

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is it possible to get sick from water? it feels like our water has a weird taste to it, and we've been feeling sick since we drank a bunch. we threw up like four or five times yesterday in a glass we had on our desk, because there wasn't anything else around.

i'm not sure whether we're supposed to move at the end of this month or not. things are scary. we are still getting some writing done but it's hard.

i wish we had a cat, or a mommy. i wish we had someone to hug.

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when i write a poem
the world ends
with the energy of a
malfunctioning garbage disposal

the same water jesus rides to work
designates our planet a ridiculous paradox
a superfluous apostrophe

in an interstellar venue
we are the water-planet
worshipping a sun god

a day's length:
an inappropriate tool for
polishing bone

it was dark and
perpetual when i wrote this
the neighbourhood was exploding

hello all

we have been wanting to wait a while before making this post because we weren't really sure of what was going on... but it seems like that doesn't matter much, so we may as well share what has been happening in our life.

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