Craig McLaughlin

Category: Hemophilia

  • Jason and the Hells Angels

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    We my step- foster sister showed up claiming the Hells Angels had killed on of her dogs and were coming back for the other, we sat around the table and discussed options. One possibility was for someone to go home with Diane and stay up all night to keep watch—and to fight off the Hells…

  • A Great Disturbance in the Force

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    NOTE: I first performed this piece on Feb. 6, 2013 at Fireside Storytelling in San Francisco. The theme was “Bad Medicine.” One morning many years ago, I was standing over the sink, getting water for my coffee, and I was overcome by the sudden bout of sobbing—that shoulders-heaving, unable-to-fill-my-lungs, abdominal-muscles-cramping, random-guttural-sounds-escaping-from-my-throat kind of sobbing. As…