I only look you in the eyes if I’m sure the condom’s on.

Call brother Henry in Louisville. Tell him to call baby sister Clementine in Augusta.

    Standing in the pieces of a broken guitar I screamed at the summer for sleeping around breaking my heart with... more

Present the conflict or the mother as the conflict or the mother as the object of conflict during childhood.

  I remember the first time I saw a foreign cherry. I blushed a little armpit. I saw how a... more

Once, all foxes were silver.

  Nest #1 Of fine black roots and the space between two classes of water chutes. Of crevices in the folds of... more

In elementary school, when kids talked about being “Christian,” I thought they were talking about race. 

  I had the milk from a dandelion all over my hands once in the sun... more

Selected comics from "Groceries": Lovecraft, Freud, & Gilgamesh

feeling in pain both emotional and physical I head into the light. In the... more

There was something so sublimely satisfying about reading Laird Hunt’s Neverhome this year... more

1.   It was always ice. Ice: a word like a shard of glass shived in his ribs. The dark plain he was bound to travel. His paramour, his nightmare, his lost thumb. His vice.

I have a tendency to get bored easily, both in relationships and in life. One of the things that made me feel confident about marrying Scott is that there is quite possibly no one weirder than him.

    it rained lightly then was very warm on the bridge i felt connected to the... more

Because we'd lost our sense of value, the day came when the animals voted us out of our cities and towns and homesteads.

  The barista is so pretty my girlfriend would be disappointed if I didn't cheat with her.        

You are a diagnostician, alert for symptoms: ridged fingernails, yellow eye-whites, swollen knuckles, broken capillaries. 

Modern Conveniences 2012 - 2014 There were moments when I forgot about the dog Whining and shivering, like a toddler in its... more

Our town’s ordinance—passed in 1862—named the first-born son of each family Zebulon.

  1. In human beings, the wink is known to convey one of four emotions:      ... more

My ex, Mark, calls me at two in the morning to tell me he’s figured out what’s causing his problems.

When I think of mumblecore, I think of Dick Tracy and pornography, low budget films, naturalistic performances, Andrew Bujalski, and pimples. We never set out to make any particular type or genre of film. We just wanted to make our film.

This is the first magic realist mumblecore psychological love story thriller shot over eight years of Claymation. 

  POEM ABOUT MY VIBE my look tonight is Asking For It a tight vibe is U Can't Have This I only wanna be in VIP... more

Edith stood close by in case they needed her, but stared out the doorway at the pickup truck.