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You can't go home again
Back when I was watching the pandemic from inside my parents’ house in Oregon, I was aware that a lot of people were leaving San Francisco. When I moved back, barely three weeks ago, it didn’t fe...
When people say, “we have made it through worse before”
a poem by Clint Smith When people say, “we have made it through worse before” all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it, those who did not survive to se...
Speed Scrabble
Back in 2007, when I was 25, friendless and raw with heartbreak, I started playing online Scrabble. Specifically, speed Scrabble, in which each player has four minutes total to play all of their ...
What isn't.*
When I was anticipating the breakup, but before it actually happened, I wrote him a letter. In it, I detailed all of the trips we took, the memories contained in them, because, I wrote, if we bre...
Catastrophes
My Amazon app indicates that my collagen powder had been delivered. “Left in mailbox.” I turn on the flashlight on my phone and swing open the front door to find it. The night here is as dark as...
On endings
As the election nears, I am finding it harder and harder to go to bed. My wake up time remains sometime between ten and eleven am, but I’m burning the midnight oil past three and four and, last n...
Burning
For a few years now, I’ve been obsessed with air quality. Well, not like “obsessed obsessed,” but aware, and somehow I ended up being a weirdo who can fit all her belongings into her little car, ...
It's come to this.
I’ve reached the point, thanks to the pandemic and my involuntary six months of celibacy (oh god am I an incel?), at which I am now having masturbation dreams. NOT SEX DREAMS. I am literally drea...
2020
I searched all day for a way to arrange these past five months into something that made sense. I sat down at my computer three times and closed my laptop three times. But the only thing that come...
I made a Jared Kushner Makeup Tutorial
You’re welcome/I’m sorry.
Have gotten zero feedback from anyone on it, but a few thumbs down on YouTube. So I keep watching it, because I’m like, “Oh shit, is this actually not funny?” But each time, something makes me la...
There's a lot of things old people don't know
My grandmother lived in Los Angeles for 93 years before, following my grandfather’s death and at my mother’s urging, she moved up to a retirement community near my parents in Oregon. She hadn’t e...
Book Description
Goodbye, world.
