The comforter had been rolled up in my trunk for two years. The last time it had touched a bed, I lived in a different house, in a different part of Los Angeles, and was a different person. The memories tucked into my Volkswagen’s back end seem to have been…

I have been single for almost a year. Okay, maybe longer, maybe shorter, but who’s counting? (Apparently my extended family and half of my friends…). I always thought that singledom promised a fatter wallet. After years of providing for bum men and wearing the proverbial ‘pants’, being alone seemed at…

I regret to inform you that I am not interested in pursuing a relationship — sexual or otherwise — with you, but you already knew that. What you might not know is how I managed to type this letter, seeing as how I couldn’t manage to send a text or…

Some nights are like this: glass of water and two tylenol you and your saline cheeks waiting for 2 am softness your nectarine heart how it is sweet and dripping a hybrid; you think you are all chemicals maybe so but wait — before you dream build this was another day maybe you think you are alone but the dandelions…

The center is not holding despite the double gloved hands of latex trying to the keep the falling pieces in place before the bottom goes out It may have never existed only us on the outskirts of whatever outskirts remained the last time, fending off that which comes sauntering, slouching…

Are we One Direction or WHAT?! Fifteen days turned into… eight months? But who’s counting, anyway? How are you all holding up in the year of DEFINITELY NOT OUR LORD 2020? Not only did I not want to be in the middle of a pandemic this year, but this month…

I always contend the best place to lose your mind is Los Angeles because you fit right in. Still, when I spent my first six months in Los Feliz, I made note of the axis being bent in the favor of my preference. The houses could pile on top of…

The axis was bent against my favor for an entire year. Leaning away from any comfort of warmth, it was twelve months of the worst season; where the sun dips early from its low place on the horizon, sinking deeper until the majority of days are spent in the dark…

(Before reading this, please consider these are my personal thoughts. This is in no way trivializing the absolute devastation we are seeing throughout the world, the utter incompetence demonstrated by elected leaders, or the grief we feel as humanity. I am only writing about the personal loss I felt in…