Malcolm's Twenty

Another response to the Lois Peterson prompt "Write a list of 20 things you know a lot about" from her book *101 and More Writing Exercises."

1.      Pain

2.      Self-pity

3.      Humour

4.      Laughter of that stinging, accusatory kind

5.      Humiliation

6.      I said “pain” already

7.      Peace

8.      Inner-peace

9.      Alcoholism

10.  Eating disorders

11.  How to make people unhappy and sad

12.  How to make people leave

13.  How to make myself so miserable no one wants to be my friend

14.  How to make people laugh

15.  How to make myself laugh

16.  How to hide how I really feel

17.  Well, not always because I blush a lot

18.  Words

19.  Fabrications
20.  Love, and it's not what you think