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The Funeral Home
The only sport I excelled at in high school was chorus. Heavily involved in PEMA, the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, I practiced all year for the annual auditions to advance through various...
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Blindness, Bats, and Belief As The Only Superpower We Need: On Daredevil and...
The dark can be a terrifying place to be. In love, in grief, in sight: there is a disorienting fear of blindness. The term itself is used with a negative connotation almost universally, and blindness...
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Bad Places
I park my car in the cul de sac on Natoma. As I approach Lafayette Street, a thin woman maybe in her early 20s passes me. She’d be attractive if it weren’t for the sores on her face and the way she...
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Build Your Own Death Star
I could not afford the Death Star. Because it cost four hundred dollars. “But we need it!” my 9-year-old cousin Adam said, speaking not only for himself, but for his entire family, the whole Hagen...
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72-Hour Hold
He said, You’re a 5150, so you won’t be able to buy a gun for five years. He said, So your psychiatrist doesn’t want to work with you any more, huh? He said, We’re only cuffing you so you don’t get...
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NO LO PUEDO CONTROLAR
It will take 19 hours and 59 minutes to get from Chicago, IL to Corpus Christi, Texas. I would go but I have never learned how to drive on the highway and today does not seem like the day for that....
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Big Girls
I’m a big girl, and even during times in my life when I wasn’t big, I thought I was. Big is ugly. I imagine thirty years from now I will look at old pictures and think to myself, “You idiot. You were...
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Scars
1. When my mom notices how smooth my legs suddenly are, she asks me if I’ve started to shave without her permission. No, I say. The hair must’ve just fallen off. She does not say anything. A few weeks...
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Sidepiece Blues
I am a mentally ill, queer, widowed, writer/artist in Hollywood. Cis-gender femme. Witch. I have an MFA from CalArts. I devote all my time to art and writing. My family and SSDI supports me. I don’t...
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Unknown Pleasures, Luxury Poverty
This week I bought a pair of Beats™ headphones. They weren’t just on sale, they were very on sale, only a bump up from the Skull Candy headphones I bought but was returning because they fit weirdly....
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