When Everything Cracks

Duncan MacLeod
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  • MENTAL HEALTH
  • WEEKLY SERIES

I've been kidnapped by aliens dressed as cops. They moved me from their prison to a simulated hospital. I can leave any time, but they won't let me. If I don't escape, they'll keep me here forever. If I use the telephone, the phone company will sell my innermost secrets to the government. If I take the medicine they give me, my brain will be replaced with cotton. So yeah. I'm crazy.

  1. EPISODE 1

    01 - Hoboes, Junkies, and Witches

    Intro to Series "When Everything Cracks" is a mental health memoir set in Old San Francisco. Duncan MacLeod, the author, reads his manuscript. Be prepared for a strange trip, as the narrator grows unreliable during a psychotic episode lasting several months.   Chapter One Meet Duncan MacLeod, a nineteen-year-old gay man living in 1980s San Francisco. He's broke and hungry and just lost his job at the Stud Bar. After a chance meeting with a rail-riding hobo and visiting a witch's dingbat apartment for a seance, the seeds of his undoing are planted.

    15 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    02 - Let's Submerge (Goin' Down to the Underground)

    Donny and I get our Goth on at the Underground, where we meet up with Lola and get high. As I wake up out of my opium cloud, I see and hear things that may not really be there. I'm cracking.

    10 min

  3. EPISODE 3

    03 - Hoboes of Oakland

    In a misguided attempt to escape imminent financial doom, Donny and I decide to hop a boxcar to Los Angeles, with disappointing results.

    6 min

  4. EPISODE 4

    04 - The Idea

    I'm suddenly struck with an idea. It's the beginning of the cracks that formed in the sidewalk of my brain. It progresses until I suddenly figure out where itts att.

    12 min

  5. EPISODE 5

    05 - Duncan Ends, Gertrude Stein Begins

    Now that I know where itts att, the cracks widen, and everything falls apart. I'm Gertrude Stein. I belong at the Top of The Mark, where aliens will easily abduct me. You get the idea.

    7 min

  6. EPISODE 6

    06 - Arrested by Aliens

    It's just like it sounds. Aliens dressed as cops abduct me while I switch identities from Gertrude Stein to Andy Warhol (Harlow, just to confuse them). I can fly. The trip to the new planet is much shorter than I expected. Cracking continues.

    20 min

  7. EPISODE 7

    07 - Identity Is the Crisis

    This planet sucks! I get shuffled from room to room, kicked, cursed out, my head held to the floor, and worst of all, I give away my dollar bill and remove my ID bracelet, so I'll never be president.

    17 min

  8. EPISODE 8

    08 General (Hospital)

    The title of this first volume of "When Everything Cracks" is "5150."  The title comes from the form a jail facility must fill out to transfer an inmate to the psychiatric hospital. This is the chapter where I am 5150'ed. In real life, the call to my Grandmother really happened, and that is how my identity was finally revealed to County Jail and General Hospital.

    12 min
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I've been kidnapped by aliens dressed as cops. They moved me from their prison to a simulated hospital. I can leave any time, but they won't let me. If I don't escape, they'll keep me here forever. If I use the telephone, the phone company will sell my innermost secrets to the government. If I take the medicine they give me, my brain will be replaced with cotton. So yeah. I'm crazy.

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