I Glimpsed My Future at a High School Speech Tournament
There’s something sweetly sad about how I remember my scores from 25 years ago, evidence of a worth I still struggle to internalize
I want to believe she wasn’t being cruel, but on some level, she felt this kind of hatred was trivial or acceptable
Not everything I write needs to be the best thing I’ve written
I felt hunted by him, but legally, his routine was treated as a hobby, like birdwatching
Expansion doesn’t have to be sure or aware of itself
I only wanted to be asked how I felt, how I wanted to approach my treatment
I always admired “Stranger Things” for insisting on imagination and nonconformity, but then the show betrayed its message
I don’t know if unseen toxicities caused her cancer, but I can’t pull myself away from the question
ICE regularly detains people in these very hallways, often violently separating children from their parents
These unintimidating experiments will reinvigorate your writing when you need a breakthrough
The moment changed us without our understanding why
Before my daughter’s surgery, I wanted to make the right choice
The genre taps into our culture’s deepest anxieties about the trustworthiness of women