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Why It Was Inevitable I Would Write About My Looks a Lot
One of my central themes if you haven’t already noticed is that good looking and rich people are an embattled minority.
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Courtney Badwood, or, The Furnace, a History of a Damn Mean Girl
Acknowledgments: for the mean girls and bitchy women who were either made mean by the world or born it—you’re very attractive and sympathetic, to me; I…
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A Deeply Insouciant Volunteer
Sequel to The Insouciant Volunteer
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The Cacophonous School Board Meeting, a Short-Story
Acknowledgments: for my right wing school board mom friends
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The Awakening, or Keira and Jon, a Short-Story About Growing Up
Acknowledgments: for Lexie Williams and the night we ran away from all our friends who made fun of us just to be alone and sit in silence together too…
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My Narratological Technique
As I am conceiving the elaborate scene next in my series where I’m riffing on the death of Sherlock Holmes as I appear to kill my main character as he…
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Why A Lot of a Great Artist’s Friends Are His Enemies and You Need to Consciously Pick the Right Friends
Today I pulled the plug on one of my closest friendships since childhood.
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The Unanticipated Dinner Guest, or The Hitchhiker, a Short-Story
Acknowledgments: for Joe Biden—see you in hell; for Sophia Delia Black and her hilarious series on Amazon, “Single Broke Drunk,” about a twenty-eight…
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The Adulterer and the Adulteress or, In Contempt of Monogamous Love, a Short-Story
Acknowledgments: for Wednesday Martin for writing Untrue about why women are getting so fed up and her theory that MeToo was about women who were…
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Can the Trump Administration Do Something About Pride Parades, and Save Our City?
Someone told me today it’s like the West Coast is invading the East Coast.
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The Real Reason Marriage is On the Wane
In all my research on the history of marriage and love in Western thought, I have alighted upon one reason marriage isn’t holding up that other…
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The Gym Lion, a Short-Story
Acknowledgments: for the shots of whiskey and beer I’ve had before working out and not after; for Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata the playful part that made…
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