This is the Stock I come from
I am plagued by so much guilt and shame that people can feel it in the air around me. Born three days late, I thought I felt guilty enough until I learned my mother spent seven hours delivering me....
View ArticleSee Mary Run
My maternal grandmother, Mary, was a precocious and austere woman. Fastidious and tolerant, presumptuous and nonchalant, and ballsy yet perceptive; I marveled at the clarity of her moods and the...
View ArticleMy Legs are Closed for Business
My preliminary dating experience on Who-The-Fuck-Cares-You-Need-A-Man mainstream dating site was as pleasant as having a yeast infection while menstruating, topped off by a sneeze-n-wheeze allergy...
View ArticleFallujahtini Anyone?
When I menstruate it’s a war zone between my thighs, Baghdad in my vagina, with clots the size of a king’s ransom. My ovaries feel like marine boot camp, soldiers marching and punching my womb with...
View ArticleThe Mourning After
Death is not my genre. My relationship with death is acutely dysfunctional. I’m terrified of death for the people I love, and also for myself, because I can’t reconcile the finality. Provoked by the...
View ArticleVulvacabulary
Until I reached puberty, my vadgarincess wasn’t even on my radar. Unlike boys who stood up to hold their outdoor plumbing and pee, I sat down because I had indoor plumbing—this was the extent of my...
View ArticleExquisite Corpse Publishes Homesick Abortion, Written by, Katie Schwartz
I have had an ongoing love affair with Exquisite Corpse for years. They are one of my favorite literary journals online. Every morsel is dark and twisted, and poignant, and so, well, exquisitely life...
View ArticleThank you, Lip Magazine
For publishing my pro-choice, non-fiction essay, “Homesick Abortion.” Told from the POV of an ethereal aberration whose deepest desire is to exist in Pheerknot and be aborted.
View ArticleThe Origin of, Rescue Me
Apparently, I wrote this essay in 2004 because I just got notification that someone left a comment on BlogCritics.org. How it got there, I can’t say. An abridged version made its way to Six Sentences...
View ArticleNew Essay on HuffingtonPost: Morning, Mourning Glory
the second essay of my column, I Don’t Drink Nearly As Much As I Should is live on HuffingtonPost. Excerpt below… Around this time last year, I was in excruciating pain, and thought, either my womb is...
View ArticleYou’d Think Owning a Pure Breed Dog Wouldn’t be so Felonious
But it is… very, especially in LA. This week in, I Don’t Drink Nearly As Much As I Should, I’m hocking about my experience owning a pure breed dog and the hell that broke loose with people who rescue...
View ArticleFirst Essay at Heeb Magazine
Thank you, Heeb Magazine for publishing my yarn about my grandfather’s first blowjob. “Zayde’s First Blowjob” (Zayde = grandfather). My father loved his father so much and wanted to help him get...
View ArticleRecent Work for 2017
Recent work includes a lot of political essays at Mock Paper Scissors and Huffington Post. Recent humor essays can be found via The American Bystander, a quarterly print magazine that every comedy nerd...
View ArticleFallujahtini Anyone?
When I menstruate it’s a war zone between my thighs, Baghdad in my vagina, with clots the size of a king’s ransom. My ovaries feel like marine boot camp, soldiers marching and punching my womb with...
View ArticleThe Mourning After
Death is not my genre. My relationship with death is acutely dysfunctional. I’m terrified of death for the people I love, and also for myself, because I can’t reconcile the finality. Provoked by the...
View ArticleVulvacabulary
Until I reached puberty, my vadgarincess wasn’t even on my radar. Unlike boys who stood up to hold their outdoor plumbing and pee, I sat down because I had indoor plumbing—this was the extent of my...
View ArticleExquisite Corpse Publishes Homesick Abortion, Written by, Katie Schwartz
I have had an ongoing love affair with Exquisite Corpse for years. They are one of my favorite literary journals online. Every morsel is dark and twisted, and poignant, and so, well, exquisitely life...
View ArticleThank you, Lip Magazine
For publishing my pro-choice, non-fiction essay, “Homesick Abortion.” Told from the POV of an ethereal aberration whose deepest desire is to exist in Pheerknot and be aborted.
View ArticleThe Origin of, Rescue Me
Apparently, I wrote this essay in 2004 because I just got notification that someone left a comment on BlogCritics.org. How it got there, I can’t say. An abridged version made its way to Six Sentences...
View ArticleNew Essay on HuffingtonPost: Morning, Mourning Glory
the second essay of my column, I Don’t Drink Nearly As Much As I Should is live on HuffingtonPost. Excerpt below… Around this time last year, I was in excruciating pain, and thought, either my womb is...
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