These Are Not Conditions in Which to Thrive

March 22, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

This is a time to survive. Your only responsibility is to get through today.

The Dollhouse Obituary

September 7, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

“There is a beautiful, even respectful, relief in honoring people for who they really were.”

Herpes And Shame, Six Years Later

March 14, 2019.Reading time 16 minutes.

Healing isn’t fun or narratively appealing: it’s a whole lot of pulling off scabs and dissecting long broken bones that didn’t set properly. It’s hard.

How to Feel When the Good Die Young

September 16, 2018.Reading time 24 minutes.

The only thing I can compare her death to is if someone picked up the needle from a record in the middle of a song—no scratch, just sudden silence where there used to be a voice and rhythm and the strum of a guitar. You wonder if silence has ever been this loud before.