Shelly Slade
Bio
Mother of two adult daughters, grandmother to Jackson, lover of music, especially Bruce Springsteen and Machine Gun Kelly. Avid concert-goer. Avid reader.
You can also find my work on Substack at: https://shellylovedealer.substack.com/
Stories (14/0)
A Minor Obsession
“Hey?” I whisper into the quiet darkness of the bedroom, “Are you awake?” He doesn’t answer. Asleep. His steady breath sounds strange and unfamiliar in the intimate ambiance of my bedroom. I poke my finger into his relaxed side and he jumps groaning to a sitting position. Whoops, maybe I poked too hard. “What do you want?” I think he is angry at me for disturbing the glow of his sleep but I say it anyway. “I want to talk.” He sighs, “God, Beth. You always want to talk. Can’t we ever just relax and enjoy some peace? Or sleep? Like people do at night?” Hurt, I turn my back to him pulling the blue blanket that my grandmother made for me up to my chin. “Never mind, then. Just go to sleep. Forget it.” And I deliberately turn some more so that my blanket pulls away, leaving him cold and I can feel him glare at my back. “Yes, I think I will.” He is really mad and he slams his feet down, probably waking the baby that sleeps in the apartment below me, and he stomps to find his clothes in the dark and he swears while he puts them on. He doesn’t say goodbye as he bangs the door shut behind him. I get up to lock it so nobody will come in and steal me. Then I jump back in my bed and pull my knees up to my stomach and nestle into the hollow left by his body. I press my nose into the silky pillowcase with embroidered flowers (Grandma again with the win) and it smells like I him.
By Shelly Slade3 years ago in Humans
Welcome to Hotel Diablo
A review and interpretation by Shelly Slade, edited by Jaclyn DeBonis. Full disclosure: what you are about to read is a review of an album by my favorite artist. Yes, I am biased. Everybody is. More importantly, I am familiar with nearly all of his music from teenaged mixtapes to collaborations to EPs to albums.I have seen the progression musically and I think it’s time that everybody else takes notice of Machine Gun Kelly. He’s a polarizing artist - rapper, musician, actor, model. People love him and other people hate him. There are, though, a lot of people like me who had never heard of him or heard his music until recently (I discovered him in the fall of 2017). I would like to introduce you to his latest project, Hotel Diablo. This album is, essentially, a portrait of Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker) in musical form.
By Shelly Slade3 years ago in Beat