Confessions Of An (Un)Graceful Girl
Gerald Pereira I have always had trouble with walking, with carrying my body from one space to another—something about there being too much of it; long arms, longer legs. There are too many parts to...
View ArticleWhat Your Twitter Bio Says About You
The other day, this thread of lyricism got stuck in my head. It was just some piece of information I thought sounded particularly poetic; the origin of which I couldn’t recall at the moment. I...
View ArticleMe And My Heart Murmur
Oscar E. Doctor says: there’s a good chance it’s harmless; this condition is pretty common. Doctor says: it could be related to your anxiety, or maybe you were born with it … might be something else...
View ArticleWashing Strangers’ Hair
Bhumika Bhatia I began washing hair when I was sixteen. Don’t get me wrong, I did other things — I swept, and I took people’s money and put it in the cash register; sometimes I stood next to a hair...
View ArticleComing Out As Biracial
A few months ago, I not-so-subtly asserted myself as biracial while having dinner with a new coworker. “I’m a Capricorn,” she’d said. “Yeah…my mom’s black,” I responded (not verbatim, but the exchange...
View ArticleThe City Is Empty Without You In It
Five months after I quoted your words on Tumblr and four months after you published me for the first time and three months after we met face-to-face in a crowded Chinatown bar, I saw you crossing that...
View ArticleSometimes You Will Forget Your Mom Has Cancer
Jonathan Kos-Read Sometimes you will forget your mom has cancer. Not at first—like, the day you hear the news, your world will pause; your thoughts will stop streaming; news and ideas and feelings...
View ArticleEulogy For A Childhood Dream
Ed Yourdon When I tell people I grew up wanting to be a pop singer, it’s mostly met with laughter. And who can blame them? My voice is far from melodious, and my vibe doesn’t exactly elicit visions of...
View ArticleThe Teenage Suicide That Could Have Been
I was fifteen when I tried to take my own life. It was the Ides of March, the day sixty co-conspirators famously assassinated Julius Caesar. Among them was Marcus Brutus, Caesar’s trusted friend and...
View ArticleA Brief Personal History Of The Jersey Shore
SurFeRGiRL30 I. I first set foot on Jersey Shore sands at fifteen years old, toothpick-thin and mid-summer sun-kissed. On the way down the shore, my friend Sara and I dangle bare feet out of car...
View ArticleMeet Me Offline
PeopleImages Meet me offline tonight, ‘cause a 73 x 73 thumbnail isn’t enough you. I want you in the highest resolution, in four dimensions, the only way I know how to look at something beautiful. You...
View ArticleHow Do You Let Someone Go Who Has Already Let You Go?
©2016 Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev Change your ringtone. Find a new place to get loaded. Kiss a stranger and make sure there are witnesses. Focus on the details you can control; clean the gunk from the...
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