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I Spent Three Years Selling Healing Crystals as Cure-Alls

They do work, just not in the way people think — For three years, my Monday afternoons, Thursday evenings, and Sundays were spent at a hole in the wall gem shop next to a medical marijuana dispensary. To date, it was the highest-paid and most interesting job I’ve ever had. We were open from 9 am to 9 pm and were…

Society

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I Spent Three Years Selling Healing Crystals As Cure-Alls
I Spent Three Years Selling Healing Crystals As Cure-Alls
Society

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Published in Scuzzbucket

·Jul 6, 2021

I grew up in a constant state of mirage

asphalt shimmering, vision warping.

Poetry

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I grew up in a constant state of mirage
I grew up in a constant state of mirage
Poetry

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Published in Scuzzbucket

·May 12, 2021

photoreceptor fires in grey

closest I can come to explain it’s those mid-july afternoons laying on a trampoline hot and stained wasting days looking at the sun in the skies all you see is that black, orange, red…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in The Riff

·May 7, 2021

Small Venues, Warm Nights, and The Zolas

If you’re not close enough to be sweat on, was it even worth it? — That night held the mystical warmth of the Pacific North West in January; light rain and heavy clouds holding in heat and humidity. The streets sparkled as the lamps bounced off the slick of the afternoon’s downpour. …

Music

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Music

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Apr 27, 2021

Related to this on many levels.
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Chandler Blair

Thank you!

Thank you!

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Mar 9, 2021

When You’re In The Mountains

On the things you hide from yourself — When I was working in the crystal store, I would always offer black tourmaline. It’s an unassuming stone — black and chunky, glimmering only in the best positions. Without the hype of its benefits, I would be surprised if a single stone would ever be sold. …

Life

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When You’re In The Mountains
When You’re In The Mountains
Life

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Published in Scuzzbucket

·Feb 21, 2021

The Saturday Shift

Written in real time — 7:26 am: Shaken awake by my own innate fear of accidently sleeping through my first Saturday shift at the job I’ve held for five months. My first Saturday shift in over a year. Weekends have been a blissfully unaware time since being laid off in March from my primarily weekend…

Life

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The Saturday Shift
The Saturday Shift
Life

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Published in Scuzzbucket

·Jan 14, 2021

Back to work.

Work — your work, not your career — requires various certifications. Not the type of certification that you hold on your own, Bachelor's degrees and the like, but rather ones specific only to the job. …

Work

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Work

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Published in Scuzzbucket

·Dec 26, 2020

Home

Those tall, unnerving desert mountains welcome me back, shrouded in the darkness. To the untrained eye, the view is nothing but darkness, but as a born and bred here woman, I can differentiate the darkness of the mountain peaks and the darkness of the sky. …

Scuzzbucket

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Home
Home
Scuzzbucket

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Published in Scuzzbucket

·Dec 22, 2020

When the Mountains Hide

I’ve never trusted places without mountains; flat plains, farm land, middle of the country, nothingness; however, even in places with the most magnificent of peaks, they seem to disappear in clouds of grey. On the coast, thick heavy fog covers the tops, sometimes the only distinction is a slight difference…

Scuzzbucket

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Scuzzbucket

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Kaelan Smith

Kaelan Smith

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currently writing a novel! will be back on medium, perhaps, sometime in the future :)

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