the dance
We pray – forgive us – that someone else will be chosen last.
Filters & Sorting
First Words
The sound of that baby's cry will stay with you as you exit the car, as you twine plastic grocery bags around both wrists, as you heft your son back onto your hip and make your way up the steep apartment steps.
Beauty Tips
At nine years old, I’ve flipped through enough beauty magazines in checkout lines and waiting rooms to understand two things: pretty is the most important thing a girl can be, and I’m missing the mark.
Lessons
In college, I blend in until the bell rings, when the other students leave to play beer pong and I go home to wait for the school bus.
The Raptors
Sometimes he curls his nicotine-stained fingers around mine and squeezes until I squirm.
Plus One
Two months after the divorce, you attend a wedding with your ex.
Shelter
If I opened the door even a crack, she scrambled over the fence and disappeared.
Rebel Girls
What is this if not a consciousness-raising session, offset only slightly by the consciousness-lowering properties of cheap merlot?