People in Utah spoke about modesty constantly
Literary agent
Never had one. I don't know any of their names.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Camus
There is no flight from light, no
solution to the absurd, when
through the ghost we are revived—
the shiny little sun-stars seeing out
like a
Joseph was my internship advisor at a public access TV station in Berkeley
This party is great, Maria, it’s really something special. You said this to our host as if she were our friend. Really, we’d known Maria for fifteen minutes and you already wanted to get into bed with her. You wanted a ménage à trois. This sounded stupid and French, but I wanted to get in bed with her too. Though my version of events wouldn’t involve you.
“Quality takes money,” she said.
Dancing had always been my weapon. I don’t let myself think.
It feels weird knowing that my parents stalk my art website as a way of seeing what I’m up to. It’s one thing to be naked in front of strangers… but to be naked in front of my parents…
The Kratom store felt like a doctor's office. A guy in a white shirt and jeans next to a slumped woman attended to us.
5. you are paralyzed like a deer in the middle of the road / a car is / a. hurtling towards you at full speed / b. disappearing into the distance
The first night I slept with R, he took Viagra and Adderall. He treated me to the sex marathon of my dreams and instantly cemented himself as the man at the top of my roster.
I took a 10mg edible and brushed my teeth in the bathroom at LAX that evening.
I was sick for four months, but it was not the kind of sick I was used to: it was a numbing contagion. Under darkened skies, I coughed up the particles of illness. I looked at the walls
But we barely make it out of his sight and into the room before Xi’s on her back with her one leg up, foot on the concrete wall, both arms out straight, hands on my chest, holding me off.
Imagine a young honeymooning couple on their way to Polynesia, the husband’s forgotten his John le Carré on the train home from work: well no matter, here’s the novelization of Sorcerer to tide him over on a fourteen-hour flight, a portable cinematic experience in prose.
When you think of birds of prey, you probably don’t think of a Shrike. Unless you’re really into birds
In terms of security, the website for Foster Care, Adoption, and Family Services wasn’t exactly armed.
We dressed as Luke and Lorelai from Gilmore Girls that year;
I'm going to get canceled for probably half this shit I'm saying.
It is a gift / to be alone in this world / together with everyone / and everything / we’ve ever loved
