“I really don’t think I’m asking too much.” The woman speaks quietly to the stilettos she buckles tight to her feet. The woman places the blister prevention on her heel and stares at the curve of her waist in the mirror. “You see,” she goes on, staining her lips a provocative color before glancing down …
Describe your demographic group. Describe the stereotypes of your group that you confirm. Describe the stereotypes you subvert.
We are cisgendered lesbian fuckboys, philanthropic fraternity swim stars, and bisexual YouTube videos with our pronouns in the description below. We are derailed carbon emissions majoring in microaggressions, viral vocabulary immune to truth, and vaccinated voyeurs on free trips to the Israeli perspective. We are black silhouettes against the setting Constitution, ephemeral …
Write from this quote from Claude Levi-Strauss, “I am the place in which something has occurred.”
I am the fallout of a sunny day in September. I am in debt from listening to lectures spewed from the mouths of journalism professors who openly admit to being cynical about the jobs I’m applying for. But what options do I have with student loan payments and journalism being what it is today? …
What Nobody Has Ever Said To You
Hey, wanna be on my basketball team? Wanna join my fantasy league? Could you grab that for me? Top shelf. Thanks. Hey, would it be alright if I holler obscenities from the car window and make you feel unsafe in your own neighborhood? Is it cool if I denounce your full potential and blame it …
Describe Nearly Drowning
Bodies float alive on the Dead Sea. The Atlantic is an opaque ocean of dead bodies, and I’m gasping for breaths in between. Twenty three, the therapist diagnosed me. And there’s pills for that, he said. So I became an island nestled between salt and a hard place. Western medicine dehydrates my faith in humanity. …
How you feel about love these days
My father is a traditional man. He believes in phone calls and reading the newspaper. He thinks a man should come to the door if he is picking me up and should also initiate the handshake upon meeting my father. During my adolescence, I found this demand absurd and embarrassing but now as I’m nearing …
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