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
Category: creative nonfiction
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
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