This Is Not a Normal Work Week
Is your mind racing while you try to focus on a task you’d find simple on any other day? That’s because you just witnessed an attempted coup.
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Introducing “LIFE RUINER,” A Micro-Memoir About Herpes and Abusive Relationships
While I’ve alluded to the less than ideal circumstances surrounding my herpes diagnosis, I’ve never told the story from start to finish.
Read MoreWe’re All Depressed. Let’s Play The Sims
I always know that my seasonal depression has begun when I spend more time playing The Sims than I do living my flesh and blood life.
Read MoreASK ELLA: Are Herpes Jokes Ever Funny?
It’s 2020 and SNL is still writing sketches about a nightmare ex-boyfriend who takes “fistfuls of Valtrex just to get out of bed in the morning.”
Read MoreThese Are Not Conditions in Which to Thrive
This is a time to survive. Your only responsibility is to get through today.
Read MoreThere Is No Cure For Burnout
I’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.
Read More‘Happiest Season’ Breaks The Only Rom-Com Rule That Matters
If you’re making a romantic comedy, you need to write a relationship — and a love interest — worth rooting for.
Read MorePersona Non Grata: My Experience with Adam Foss
No one ever talks about how sexual harassment disrupts your ability to just do your damn job.
Read MoreAsk ELLA: I Have Herpes and I’m Afraid of Rejection
Rejection is always a risk because people are complicated and life is unfair. That rejection is unfair doesn’t make it sting any less.
Read MoreHow Getting Herpes Prepared Me For The COVID-19 Pandemic
Viruses do not care who we are. Viruses do not exist to exact karmic punishment. They are not agents of destiny or markers of character. They are not concerned with our petty human stories about who matters and who doesn’t. To COVID-19, we are just bodies.
Read MoreAn Anxious Writer Joins Patreon
My dream in life is to be able to support myself with my writing. I do not know if that day will ever come, not because of my talent, or my voice, or my courage, but because I am garbage at email.
Read MoreASK ELLA: How Do I Tell Someone I Have Herpes?
Telling someone you’re interested in that you have herpes means making yourself vulnerable.
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