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How to Survive Dental School
Try acquiring a taste for energy drinks, purchasing highlighters in bulk, then bleeding them dry. Try saying, “Fuck PowerPoint,” in front of your peers to earn their respect. Try …
A Conversation Worth Having
I can tell Lucas wants me to suck him off by the way he spreads his legs. So I’m not surprised when he says, “Suck me off.” The problem: …
Cocaine Katrina
In 2004, after six years of menial kitchen apprentice work, I began to help run a busy restaurant. Under its roof, in my four years there, I’m sure chunks …
She Knew Better
In the morning she found Ray at the kitchen table cleaning her fecal matter from the barrel of his .22-250. He didn’t look up. Last night he’d rolled his …
When the War Began
Tuesday February 12th
Today, I asked R to get a manicure. He complained for hours before accepting. Your hands are hard, I told him, your fingers rough. That’s because …
My Second Throat
I didn’t come back from the war just because I thought you’d be waiting for me. But I did find the enemy and spat in his eye. It surprised …
Lesbian Camping Trip
On a Lesbian Camping Trip, you are usually either a Lesbian or you are invited by your mother who couldn’t find a baby-sitter, or even worse has decided to …
Getting Away
Daddy says he needs to go to the movies at night to relieve his stress, so Momma wakes us up, puts coats over our pajamas, leads us to the …
In a Name
I hate her. She stands in the galley kitchen of this tin box home, the one she’s giving me so she can live out middle age with a picket …
My Boyfriend Del
You got a eye booger, Del tells me. I can’t look at it, it’s sick. You all gooey. A goober goo-face. This he finds funny, he laughs loud, his …
