Am I Bisexual Enough For You?
Women fill me with warm fear. I do not know how to flirt with them, or even how to formulate complete sentences.
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The Day I Got Diagnosed With Herpes
“I guess this is what I get for falling for a girl like you.” An insult tossed off so casually, so precisely designed to gut me.
Read MoreFiction: The Love Interest
She hadn’t stopped thinking about Ian since that night, and it seemed like such a waste to walk away from someone who might be worth sticking around for.
Read MoreRyan From ‘Promising Young Woman’ Fucked Me Up
Watching Promising Young Woman felt like taking a fork in my fist and then jabbing it into my right temple. The film left me bleeding for days.
Read MoreWhen Your One-Night-Stand Ignores You On Campus
How humiliating and bizarre, to feel so close to someone and then watch him bolt out of the cafeteria when you got up to refill your Diet Coke.
Read MoreBREAKUP SEX
Sex can be a vital language for two people who have run out of words, or for whom words are cheap and ineffective, unable to capture the wealth of tangled emotion still living in their chests.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreIntroducing “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 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.
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Ella Dawson 