to all the ardent americans who turned their gentle boys into closed-off "tough men" in the name of God i was twelve or thirteen when i witnessed a sow shot so we could dissect it for a homeschool anatomy experience (it was light on actual science). a girl my age fainted when one of the… Continue reading blood ties
April 2022 – sixlets
[from my archives] A tenet: And mother created daughter in her own image; in the image of mother she created her. I got my first period four days before your eleventh birthday pool party. By the time the day of the party came I didn’t need a tampon and I was relieved, not that I’d… Continue reading April 2022 – sixlets
6/14/2023 – deluge
God both scares me and reassures me. From my archived notes. when my mom was a kid, she captured a mole and swaddled it in a towel, hoping it would be her friend. it kept squirming and crying, so she held it tightly in her hands. as it slipped from her grasp, she squeezed it… Continue reading 6/14/2023 – deluge
God is this kid
so God is this kid. God is this kid who i held in my arms for the first time, and at that moment i thought as though it were a prophecy, "i'm going to let him down," and he smiled at me. God is this kid who looks at me with big eyes. God is… Continue reading God is this kid
Worthy of Display: The Inherent Tackiness of Reusing Plastic Containers And Identity in Performative Sustainability
2 December 2022 author's note: I wrote this essay for my Writing 150 final at the end of my first semester of college. I am pretty proud of this essay and put a lot of effort into it, so I hope you enjoy it! As a child, I remember opening my grandma’s kitchen cabinets to… Continue reading Worthy of Display: The Inherent Tackiness of Reusing Plastic Containers And Identity in Performative Sustainability
6/19/23 – acceptance
it's said acceptance is the first step to healing from trauma, but it’s also the last stage of grief. i still can’t believe i grew up in a place that literally asked me to call boys my age “master”, simply because they randomly received a Y-chromosome when they were conceived. it’s so absurd, so wildly… Continue reading 6/19/23 – acceptance
11/20/22 – the wrath of God and the wrath of a woman
Dear Church, dear Body of Christ, We try so hard to run from the wrathful God, we try so hard to make the God of Judgment palatable and nicely packaged. We want God served to us in neat cuts, saran-wrapped on a disposable styrofoam tray. And as a woman, I have been hand-fed a God… Continue reading 11/20/22 – the wrath of God and the wrath of a woman
10/24/22
Some days are hard and I just want to give up, but some days life is really good. Sometimes everything hurts and sometimes I'm so grateful to be alive. It's difficult at times but I find something beautiful in being willfully optimistic. Defiantly positive. Even when I feel awful and my body and brain are… Continue reading 10/24/22
we’re finding happiness in our own hopeless ways
This is a prayer and realization that I wrote earlier this year. It was in response to a question I had: what is art without God, or created by those without the heart/mindset of Christ? what should be our response and is it okay to find joy in it? I hope you feel something from… Continue reading we’re finding happiness in our own hopeless ways
Novella: The Tragedy of Gamma XA-113
Hi everyone! A while back I posted that I had just finished my tragic sci-fi novella, The Tragedy of Gamma XA-113. I'm proud to say it's finally published and available for you to read right now on Amazon Kindle! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M9PYN41/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+tragedy+of+gamma&qid=1604070511&sr=8-1 Here's the description: Lightyears away from home, two sisters' fractured relationship is tested when one… Continue reading Novella: The Tragedy of Gamma XA-113
In the Silence Between 