Disappointment Archives - My Dissolute Life

How hiring help can backfire beautifully

You just can’t get good help any more! And thank God!

Chronicle of a date’s death foretold.

I’m a master at conjuring disappointment. First, a memory. Really, a memory of a memory. I use women, over and[…]

Serena is late, and disappoints me just a bit. Turns out, I manage it fine.

Athena’s coming to town, and we won’t have sex.

Thinking about my relationship to fucking, handjobs, blowjobs, and… my father.

I use Persephone to revisit feelings of rejection and abandonment.

When women disappoint me once, they almost always do it again. And again. And again. And still? I keep going back for more. Though less than before.

Charlotte lifts her dress for me, and I manage to be… disappointed?!?

Like a moth, I fly toward, rather than away from, a whole host of flames: the flame of jealousy, the[…]