Breaking Into Houses With Neil Armstrong
My mother broke into a total of twenty-three apartments as a teenagerjust to see if her broken heart was hiding in some stranger’s bed.Instead, all she found were lonely couples having sex in the...
View ArticleDo you ever get writers block? And if so, how do you go about dealing with...
Yes, I do get writer’s block. Whenever I find myself unable to write, I immediately stop trying to. I actually think that’s a good first step; you can’t force yourself to do something otherwise it...
View ArticleSaving Grace (collaboration with dolore-perdita)
Your lips against mine are a spark and I hope we set the world on fireI’m caught between a bed and a soft placeWhat no one knows is that the sky’s designed to fall so we need hope to survivePlease...
View Article"Where do all the unsaid I love you’s in the world go? she inquired. And the...
“Where do all the unsaid I love you’s in the world go? she inquired. And the second girl replied, Perhaps they float in someone’s bathtub on top of the water, struggling to stay afloat. Or maybe...
View Articlethe color of grief
As a child I was constantly sticking my fingers in socketsand trying to figure out if grief had its own colorso my mother sat me down on the sofa and took out the Pantone book,paged through it for an...
View ArticleWhat I'd Do For You
Whenever you drink like the world’s going to end, I’ll buy you a kitthat protects anyone, human, cat, or alien, from the apocalypse.When you’re wound up so tight that you can barely move,I’ll take a...
View Article"Don’t worry. The acne will go away, sort of. You will stop fighting with...
“Don’t worry. The acne will go away, sort of. You will stop fighting with your sisters when they go to college. This will be because of two things: your inabilityto steal their clothing and the...
View Article"Why do others always say that two people of the same gender can’t love one...
“Why do others always say that two people of the same gender can’t love one another? he sighed. I don’t have a clue, replied the second boy, But what I do know is that I want you more than anything...
View Articlethings to say to my future daughter
You never thought you’d make it out of high school,but here you are, alive, two years later,with expired milk and ticket stubs scattered around the ruinsof your own apartment, a package of condoms...
View Article"It is said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells. To think,...
“It is said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells.To think, this year I will grow into a body you never willhave touched.” - Brett Elizabeth Jenkins (via sierrademulder)
View Articlehow to ring in the ghosts of the new year
I remember you saying you’d swallow me whole,like the bones of a whale that form a ship inside its body.In high school I got drunk in the bathrooms every morningbefore philosophy class, standing before...
View Articlea step-by-step guide for getting rid of sadness
You think you’re unsaveable and that you’re going to wear this sadnesslike a t-shirt for the rest of your life. You believe that every morningyou’ll wake up and hold open the neck so you can slip into...
View Article"What does the human soul look like? she inquired. I’m not exactly sure, he...
“What does the human soul look like? she inquired. I’m not exactly sure, he replied. But it must be something akin to a firefly trapped in a jar: fluttering, aglow, burning with light, yet caged in by...
View Articleani ohevet ot'cha
Saying I love you in English was never enoughso I had to carve it into my wrist with an X-acto knife in Hebrew,over and over again like a mantra.Ani ohevet ot’cha Ani ohevet ot’cha Ani ohevet...
View Article"Happy Birthday, he said. Am I really 100 years old already? she joked. Yes,...
“Happy Birthday, he said. Am I really 100 years old already? she joked. Yes, he said. It must be weird for you, I suppose. It’s weird for me too. It’s almost like I keep thinking I’ll wake up one day...
View Article"I used to fear the small things like forgetting to take my vitamins, sitting...
“I used to fear the small things like forgetting to take my vitamins, sitting in the bath for so long I would shrivel up and disappear or losing a tooth down the drain. I still plug the sink when I’m...
View Articlethe doctor who could cure sadness
I dream of hospital rooms and wake up sweating, the covers stuck to my skinlike strips of glue. I was remembering the sadness scales on the wall,those flimsy pieces of paper we were taught to point...
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quantum physics for the lonely woman
My mother tells me she undressed another womanat work yesterday, held her against the sinkas the office filled with the sounds of clattering typewriter keysand the sharp puncture of staples into...
View Article"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to...
““Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”” - Natalie Goldberg
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