DON’T READ THIS IN PUBLIC
an inconsistently and indefinitely running blog containing writings about everything and nothing.
by the writer, T.C. Barrera

wrong parking spot, that’s all.
This was Atlanta, one of its many beautiful hoods; and, after all, I’m from the city, been here all my life. Here or there in cities all over anyway. I know a thing or two about minding my own business.

kids on the street.
i roll by them walking from the apartments on Hollywood Rd., and i think about all this.

this is what it feels like.
Most days, I daydream about getting paid to write 500-1500 words a day for some newspaper or magazine. I wake from these daydreams and remember it’s 2025, I never got a degree, the job market for writers is dogshit, and I’m basing my desire to be a successful writer on nothing but a gut feeling that my stuff isn’t shit.


A Collection About Poverty
strife is a steaming paper plate of white rice, and store-bought rotisserie chicken.

and the palm trees, they burned.
in this one... Los Angeles burns, concessions are too high, i confess i'm bad at basketball, my pops almost drives into the inferno, and i reveal that i prophesied the flames.

Generation Doom
Maddow is not Minerva, and I think I’ll kill myself if I find out some of you think Hannity is a hero for truth.

Judgements We Pass While Picking Up the Milk, the Eggs, the Bread.
a search for life in the grocery store.


Charlie Brown, the Stoner; A Military Takeover; An Emergency Landing; A Panic Attack; And It Wasn’t Even Christmas Eve Yet.
In this one, the military industrial complex takes over the Atlanta airport; a solider has a seizure causing an emergency landing; I hyperventilate on a bathroom floor; and Charlie Brown smokes a joint with me. All before Christmas. The holiday hard launch.