Captain of This Ship
Brennan FlentgeNot motivation - MUTINY. A sobriety logbook for overthrowing the captain who keeps steering toward “relief” and calling it control, exposing the lies, breaking the loop, and building a life that doesn’t require escape.
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| Issues | 8 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Ninety-Nine Adults and One Sick Captain
In my first few days of sobriety, I became responsible for 99 people… in a game… on my phone.
I would love to make that sentence sound less stupid. I can’t.
Couldn’t drink. I didn’t know what to do with time now. 15 minutes seemed like an...
Ballast of the Damned
Author’s note: No required reading. But MUTINY is where the ship first started talking back.
Day 543. Nobody was doing anything wrong.
But that was the problem.
Mediocre coffee. Stiff chairs. Fluorescent lights. Meeting starts.
“Here’...
FRANKENSTEIN GOD.
Author’s note: I use capital-G God here because lowercase would be dishonest. I was not wrestling with an obscure concept. I was wrestling with the God I grew up believing in, prayed to, and thought I had handed the wheel to. This is not...
I Needed a Villain
What are you going to do about it?
I used to not ask myself that.
I was waiting for poetic justice to pour out of the sky. I thought if enough truth stacked up on my side, reality would eventually be forced to admit I’d been getting fucke...
The Rot Below Deck
The panic breaks. The worst night passes. You don’t drink. You do not blow your life up this week. You answer the phone. You make it through the day. From the outside, it looks like the emergency is over.
Then the room gets silent.
And in...
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Recovery. Questions. Stories. Work. And whatever else keeps following me home // ⚓️ COTS: Sobriety // \ud83c\udf1d BF: Work, life, thoughts, everything else
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