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Little Boy Blue
Close to a decade before I had my son—back when you always said I was like a mother to you—we sat in our favorite dark bar in Seattle, drinking and […]
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CONNIE RAMONE’S DAY OFF
She put some cold mashed potatoes on toast. She made gravy from a powder packet. She washed her things in the sink and dried them off in a brown towel […]
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TWO ON THE WAY BACK
My stepmom has always been my anchor, my rival, my confidante and a sister-mother-friend-hybrid of sorts. She is twelve years older than me, so whenever we used to lie about […]
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A PROPERLY DIRTY DRESS
When people say they want to get married, I cringe. When people say they are against marriage, I cringe, too. The simple answer to my ambivalence towards traditional coupledom is: I […]
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NOT JUST ANYBODY
I have an idea for a movie. In the trailer, the two girls—women in their early thirties—are sitting on swings in a park and it is just barely morning. They […]
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YOU HAVE MY WORD: GRATITUDE
Marguerite Duras tells us that writers create work out of doubt; that we write from, and within, a certain kind of despair that drives us to assemble our words into […]
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WAITING TO BE
Dear M, Yr thighs are ruined, you want too much. Dear M, Pink. Nineteen. Nodding razors. Glad folded pale slips. Dear M, I married the butcher to get […]
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THE FOLKLORE OF THE BLACKOUT
You used to help a blind girl put her boots on in the mornings. She said, blinking hair out her eyes, […]
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EIGHT POSTCARDS
Dearest Sonia, My mother, Chaya, or the more assimilated, Anna, wasn’t sentimental and never wanted to discuss my dead father with us kids. I was their fifth-born, their fourth living […]
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WHOLE HALF PARTS (Part One)
Whole Iggy Pop is magnificent. I love him. It’s no joke, okay? I think it is totally possible to sit and stare out of the window on the bus and […]
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WHOLE HALF PARTS (Part Two)
Half I won’t throw away my money on boys in bands when I go work as a stripper in lazy fits and starts suddenly needing to pay some bills. Right […]
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WHOLE HALF PARTS (Part Three)
Parts What I’m trying to tell you is that I worship all these dead girls. Dead women. * I worship Anais Nin and Edie Sedgwick and Connie Ramone, too. My […]
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WHOLE HALF PARTS (Part Four)
Whole Half Parts When Connie’s mom buried her prostitute daughter, she must have thought about going up to every single guy that fucked, or fucked over her baby, and spitting […]
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ANNA AKHMATOVA AND PUSSY RIOT
Before the members of Pussy Riot were jailed for an anti-government performance in a church, lasting mere seconds, the most famous female artist punished for her words in Russia may […]
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through sickness and through pause
I stephanie brooks used to bring me a Jack in the Box hamburger in exchange for a haircut in my living room, there was extra salt and pepper in […]
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Enveloped
from your garden please send a pinch of parsley in your next letter and note the moisture closely i will measure travel time this way then send back word […]
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BYSTANDER NEWS
I’m confused by your smoking in all of these new pictures. But I guess we were only overgrown children when I knew you. (May 5, 7:45 pm) Saw […]
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LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS WOMEN
In the early 1890s, Frederick Douglass gave a speech about the nature of a self-made man who must weather unfriendly circumstances, a lack of familial support or inheritance, and […]
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EVERY BOOK IS DEAD
Writing is doubt, and so I read in order to write. I look for clues in any given text, and if they are not readily present, a certain defensive boredom […]
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THAT’S THE SOUND
The stages of giving birth for the first time and those of chronic PTSD seem to have the same four elements Persistent fear response or realizing you might […]
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