I said to the / ceiling fan / I am here / to break / the sadness.

New Miserable Experience Gin Blossoms Label: A&M Released: August 4th, 1992 Length: 45:02   When I... more

most of the time / i am / bored and warm

It’s getting harder and harder to shave my pussy, let alone the tight star of my asshole.

such good I push a cloud out of my head and stretch my ankle I move forward like a spherical knife not actively trying to... more

I was a mess at every sunrise. The door winked at me, the comb was losing teeth.

1. I cut through the small park. Come out the other side. As soon as I do I feel eyes on me. I look up from the... more

I was still in diapers when American Fool was released, so by the time I made my way to Indiana for college, it was already a classic. And it’s not until you live in Indiana—in small-town Indiana—that you feel Johnny Cougar Mellencamp in your veins.

blm land this belt of the nation feels equally bible and rust and sun, where mute billboards offer us teeth cleaning for... more

I started watering the houseplants on a regular basis—this after watching the dead multiply for the years I spent... more

The term “unreliable narrator” was first coined in 1961 by the critic Wayne C. Booth, and since then it... more

Let’s create fake accounts and try to seduce each other. 

I used to part masses. To wade through throngs of children cheering. Boogie would press play on the cassette, and I’d come through the crowd instead of take the aisle. I’d roll on the trampoline and stand above a field of pumping fists. 

And so even though my flight was the next morning and my phone was dying and I had neither a charger nor anyone else’s phone number written down, I went to the show, alone.

I call that year my wandering year or my train station year or my year of the lucky rat year. It was 1996 and I was pregnant with my first child, Boris––born with a strong heart, Boris.

You would be forgiven for thinking Vegas is not the place for you. 

I can almost split your face in two.

She had gorgeous hair, long and dark -- I like to wrap it around my neck after we make love and fall asleep like that. 

Maybe Marjorie lives a solitary life bookended by Family Feud reruns, spending painstaking hours in front of the set trying to put the city together, but small parts keep breaking off or falling under the couch through her indelicate hands

We were there to see Belgian metal band Oathbreaker. And I bought a Khemmis shirt, in part because theirs was one of the best, most metal, riffiest sets I’ve ever seen and in part because their shirts were the kinds of all wizards and skulls that you want in a metal shirt. But it was Jaye Jayle I found most hypnotic.

The first thing you need to know about being a Disney is that you should avoid letting anyone know that you are one.

I want him to know that we’re the same.

The book reveals as much about the reader’s psyche, about the self and the readers’ reaction to reading it, as it does about the author— this deeply personal thing, a dream, so full of symbols we imbue with our own shared and cultural meanings.

The neighbor comes to my door with my keys in his hand: I'd left them in the mailbox earlier, or maybe yesterday, or the day before that.