There was no question this Gene was doing a good thing. Fuck the puppy mills. Why does my best friend have to be a pure breed? I had to convince Clea because she had her heart set on a pug. “How superficial do you want to prove you are? If Read more
“I bite my nails, that’s my one vice” M says. I used to bite my nails. But in my teens I was shamed into stopping. I had just started modeling and I remember a hair stylist using words like ‘disgusting’ and ‘gross’ when he looked at Read more
One day they would find her body fossilized in the memory foam. Every morning Nikki felt she sank a little lower into the mattress and had to pry herself out like a Looney Tunes character in wet concrete. It took all her fight for the day to get up. She Read more
Yesterday I heard someone say that they had a great Monday morning because it felt like a Sunday morning. I was immediately envious. On Monday I had to get up with the alarm even though my body wasn’t ready, I had residual irritation from the overly long and underwhelming Oscar Read more
Kyla wipes the black smudges from the corners of her eyes while watching him sleep. His breath is deep and thunders softly in his chest. But he is not fully snoring. Kyla is glad about this. She chews the inside of her lip as she counts through the positions they Read more
‘be careful it’s raining’ It is Marta’s mantra. The words are spray-prainted on an umbrella her roommates made for her while she was juggling five lovers. At first Kim had tried to Sharpie the mantra onto an actual condom. Epic fail. They all howled with laughter sitting around the aqua blue table Read more
8 min, 2.21.13 @ ezra’s pound on Dupont Ave, TO inspired by conversation snippet and couple feeding each other “Do you want a bite of this? You should taste it, it’s still warm. Omygod. So good” She’s extending the chocolate chunk cookie to him, so close to his mouth he Read more
A lot of what I learned about love I learned from the movies. This made for unnaturally high expectations. My twenties were a perpetual quest for the lightening bolt of drama and passion. Except that I shied away from confrontation. The template in my head involved overcoming crazy odds, battling Read more