Addicted to Recovery: The Interactive Memoir

Edgy, Cool and Tortured

January 27, 2022 Tara Boyce Season 2 Episode 10
Addicted to Recovery: The Interactive Memoir
Edgy, Cool and Tortured
Show Notes

My classmates in Creative Writing would understand how edgy, cool and tortured I was, and how cool my drinking was. 

The first writing assignment I workshopped in my fiction writing class was from my *ahem* novel, a chapter in which the narrator, reeling from a devastating breakup, hurtles into alcoholic drinking and ends up in rehab. Funny how I was writing things, as ‘fiction,’  that hadn’t happened to me yet, but were going to. Was it prediction? Manifestation? But a story about rehab, that would certainly make everyone think I was edgy, cool and tortured. I didn’t even bother to mask my breath if I came back from swigging wine in the bathroom at break, because that’s what someone who was edgy cool and tortured would do, and because I WANTED them to talk. I imagined them having whispered discussions about me in the hallway, wondering if I had indeed been to rehab myself, because that would just be so ME, given how edgy cool and tortured I was. 

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