The Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
Impulsiveness. It’s the scourge of the Aries, a type of marked characteristic that likely defines murderers, thieves, and people really bad at calm, stable, interpersonal…
Read onImpulsiveness. It’s the scourge of the Aries, a type of marked characteristic that likely defines murderers, thieves, and people really bad at calm, stable, interpersonal…
Read onI ignored it the first time, not wanting to make the conversation awkward for either of us, but the second time the topic came…
Read on“I looked up Rihanna’s red carpet outfits for inspiration, and I loved all of them because her style is my style.” Alexis Carter was a Baltimore…
Read onThere is, on the part of my computer’s hard drive dedicated to a Gmail account, a handful of folders I cannot let go of, filled…
Read onI’m standing in the lobby of a tattoo and piercing parlor on 2nd Avenue, my hair freshly blown-out and blonde from a four-hour salon appointment,…
Read onThey’re playing baseball in McCarren park and I am immediately hit with the dusty smell of my childhood: dirty gloves, pebbles in bat bags, the…
Read onThe white girl with the blonde cornrows and the sleeves of tattoos is dancing in the corner, her feet prancing from right to left, blankly…
Read on“Alright, I’ll take Henry, Nicole, Jenny, and Gina.” The casting director is peering over her glasses onto a clipboard, that familiar sheet of paper that…
Read onHere’s a story: Girl walks into a bar. Girl sees her friends. Girl walks straight towards her friends because, man, these people are awesome! Girl…
Read onAfter the ’94 Northridge Earthquake, we had to remodel our house. Though it hadn’t been flattened like many of the parking garages just five miles…
Read onWhite and green. That’s the color scheme of Gillian’s wedding. Really deep emerald, she adds. Very country club, I offer. She tells me about the…
Read onI did it. I bought another fancy bag. My second “grownup bag” of my entire life, purchased almost a year to the day of my…
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