There is a specific geometry to despair. When you are in the grip of opioid addiction, your world shrinks to the size of a pill bottle and the circumference of your next fix. It is a flat circle of cause and effect: withdrawal, relief, shame, repeat. I was trapped in that circle for nearly five years, a ghost haunting my own body. I called myself a magician, a student of the occult, but the truth was, my altar was covered in dust and my grimoires were used as coasters for dir

Butterflies are most commonly found on women, but they can be stylized in a masculine way for men as well. They can be found small or large, colour or black and grey, and in many placements on the body. Today butterflies can be tattooed very realistically and this is usually the preferred style, although there are many butterfly designs in all sorts of styles. The monarch butterfly is easily the most famous and easily recognized butterfly for its distinct wing pattern and it'