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After February 25, 1971
Grandma was murdered at 42 when gun violence was uncommon. Mom had to identify the body. The coroner pulled the sheet down without warning. The corpse stared back at her. Mouth wide open. How could mom even take care of…
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Girl on Girl (Week One): On Seeing Each Other
When I can’t trust my own eyes, I borrow yours for a while.
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What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman
I had her in my life for eighteen years and ten months before I got the call on a snowy April morning in 1982 that she had died the night before, of a massive heart attack. We lived across the…
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Normalcy? In This Economy?
Perverts is full of squirting, fingering, vibrators, life-changing kisses, and of course, meaningful lesbian glances. Yet intimacy, if it ever arrives, does so as a terrifying and delightful surprise.
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Aesthetic Nostalgia
Before I fell in love with my name, my biggest reservation was that it gave people an impression of my father I knew to be inexact. These days, because of how much I love my name, it is easy to…
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Read Everything You Can and Keep Writing: A Conversation with Tracy Lynne Oliver
“You just don’t know how long something’s going to take to get published in terms of a book. But start small: Start publishing little things; get feedback; get rejected; get accepted. That’s all part of it. Just do all of…
