Shopping for dish soap at the City Line Target, I pick a bottle of Palmolive marked two for five dollars. My mom puts it back in favor of Dawn. “Brand loyalty,” she says.
Around 2001, while I was living in Adrian, MI with my husband (ex husband now) Ben, we had an encounter with a young man we did not know. We lived on the second floor in the back of an apartment complex. One day in the summer Ben came upstairs...
When I moved to portland in 2003 I had uprooted myself to avoid getting trapped in Florida,where I grew up. I figured I could work paycheck to paycheck and make art on the side just about anywhere, so why not find a place that rang true?
I met Mark at a nightclub. No, wait. That's not true. My best friend, Dahlia, met Mark on the internet. This was, like, 1990-something. 6? 7? I was definitely old enough to drink. And we met him...
Greetings my name is Sigmund, I am from Los Angeles and I am a coincidentalist, (it has nothing to do with dentistry though). I study coincidence and consider it as my hobby. It started when I was 17 years old, (1972...
Brian’s little sister seemed too old to be dressed in underwear all of the time. She was forever dirty from head to foot with hair in dirty strands and Brian would alternately send her away and drag her along. His toe-head brother hovered...
Roland Teed was some kind of mixed breed, a veritable freak in our high school of whitebread plainness. Two years my senior, half Chinese, but broad shouldered with bowed legs and about my height, Roland was already an adult....
I was a happy, normal five year old girl. I loved to run, laugh, fight with my sister, and play with my friends. I could do everything other five year olds could do, but I was different.
