Image Credit: OCD UK You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering. ~Ernest Hemingway This year, my obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis turned old enough…
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Image Credit: “Figure Toys Hugging” by Gaelle Marcel (@gaellemarcel) from Unsplash Beside my bed in a grey storage cube, among old filmstrips and bills, sits a large pink vibrator…
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My hands are dry, creeks of blood cracking open. A pink fury. I wash and wash and hope. * * * The first week of COVID-19 quarantine, I accidentally cancel…
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Image Credit: Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Last fall, my 17 year-old son spent three months recovering from a weed addiction while going to high school online from…
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Image Credit: “Self-Portrait” by Egon Schiele (1911) After twenty minutes on the phone with Andrew, our friend in L.A., who had just asked “so what’s on your mind lately,”…
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1. You’ve never asked a lot of the people who pass you on the sidewalk. In fact, you’ve never asked them for anything at all. But these days, your…
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The day before yesterday, I logged onto Facebook and discovered—the same way any new post in a feed is a discovery—that my manager from a 2016 summer job had passed…
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by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Translated by John Pluecker When it came time for the French biologist Jacques Monod to title his extraordinary book Chance and Necessity: Essay on the…
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Image Credit: Chelsea Snow I push my feet down into the cold linoleum. A machine was programmed to paint the linoleum so it looks sliced from grey wood. It…
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The foundational agreement of sobriety—that I want to stay alive—flickers. Like a single lightbulb hanging in the dark basement of any horror movie. Maybe a lightbulb is a little on…
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Mother’s Day 2020 holds the Sunday slot in what I’d expected to be a busy weekend of May festivities, including Friday’s Junior Prom and Saturday’s college graduation. I’d looked forward…
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We are eating apricot scones. We are watching the crumbs gather around each other’s lips, spill over, pepper pink skin with white. We are engaging in Eros. We are downing…
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TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to sexual assault and violence that may be triggering to some. In early April, my boyfriend and I were walking in the little park…
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Image Credit: “Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia.” Photo by Jordan Kauffman The second funeral I ever attended was for the father of a friend of my girlfriend’s, 20 years ago.…
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