What is sciatica and what can you do about it?

These were written in a dark period in 1996 after I had dropped my first university degree, moved interstate, had just been through a really rough breakup, and was hanging out in IRC channels. Full of teenage existential angst.

This was written for my year 12 English creative writing portfolio in 1994.

This was written for my year 12 English creative writing portfolio in 1994. Unfortunately, my actual year 12 English teacher, the one who had to grade my portfolio, forbade me to include it "because it was suicidal". None of the other English teachers agreed with her. Do you?