![]() ![]() Where can we follow you and find your work?įor starters, I keep writers talk about GoodReads. I was inspired by her book to check out if the tap water in my hometown had any violations…and it turns out there are 12 chemicals above safe levels in Toledo’s water…there’s even unsafe levels of hexavalent chromium…which was the same chemical at the centre of her famous lawsuit. ![]() I’m currently reading Erin Brockovich’s book Superman’s Not Coming which is all about how polluted and deadly America’s tap water is. ![]() What are you reading now? (If you aren’t reading anything, let us know what other art you’re consuming) So, I set out determined to talk about my trainwreck of a life, but to do it in a fun way I had rarely seen. ![]() But for people who are already suffering, that kind of writing only hurts them more. For normal people who are looking for a glimpse at the world of suffering… sure, they might get off on that shit. Sometimes, reading about trauma is so dramatic, that it’s traumatic itself, which just makes it miserable to read. And I told myself that I’d NEVER make anyone feel that way. And I just want to die every second of my life.” I’d legit read things like, “I haven’t left my house in 10 years. So, I just started blogging about my experience, and I tried to make it fun and irreverent, because when I’d go online and read stuff written by people with mental illness, it only made me more afraid. Blogging was the only way I could connect with the outside world (aside from the suicide hotline, which I was calling numerous times each day). And I was about ready to jump out a window. I started writing when I was severely agoraphobic. Why do you write/create Creative Non-Fiction? Like there’s this need within me to tell people about what it’s like to struggle, but to also (hopefully) make them laugh along the way. For me, writing is just something I have to do. Honestly, I don’t like the word “inspiration”. Langston’s piece ‘The Many Beds of Los Angeles’ can be found in Epoch Issue 01: Beginnings ( available for purchase here). His literary writing has appeared in Hobart, 86 Logic, The Daily Drunk, and more. Keith Langston writes for Screen Rant and Passport Magazine. ![]()
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