Nonfiction

Homesick and Haunted: When “House of Leaves” Changed My Life

Queens to You, My Friend

My Father Once Tripped Over a Dead Body in the Woods, and While That’s Not Why He Left, It’s Still Completely in Character

Sometimes Marriage Is a Butterfly, and Sometimes It’s a Six-Eyed Sand Spider

To Claw One’s Way Out of a Shame Spiral

Satan’s Hill and Foxcatcher Farm: A Hometown Urban Legend

When HIPAA Totally Ruins Your Best Six-Degrees-Removed-from-a-Celebrity Story

The Theseus Paradox for Exhausted Parents

SHAME

Reflections on Hedwig and the Truths We Learn

Sleep Deprivation Was Banned by the Geneva Convention, You Know

Things Simone Biles Can Do Better than You

On Buying Playboy with Queer Men in the Bush Era

Because That’s EXACTLY How the Internet Works

On Vanishing Twins and the Right to Grieve

On Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, and Good, Hard, Sweaty Sex

When Hope is the Most Frightening Thing of All

The Seed or the Soil?

Instead of Reinterpreting the Second Amendment within a Modern Context, Let’s Have an Active Shooter Drill!

My German Grandmother Was Totally a Bitch, and Also So Much Cooler than Yours

Family and a Feral Cat on a Summer Evening

Brittany from High School Found a Dead Body

Why I Must Regretfully Decline Your Invitation to the 15 Year Reunion of Our Graduating Class at the Alma Mater Which Gave Me CPTSD

Insight into the Middle East Peace Conflict with Regards to the Intellectual Boycott, Which Struck One Afternoon while I Was Being Confused by My Half-Jewish Son’s Bris

Allyship Is a Perpetual State of Being, and My Autistic Son is Rocking It

Why You Shouldn’t Marry Your Best Friend

If You Happen to Have a Crisis of Faith One Day at LAX…

An Open Letter to My Formula-Fed Baby

An Uninspiring Message from Rosie the Riveter

Joseph Smith in, “I Absolutely Did Not Promote Polygamy Just to Have Sex with a Lot of Women”

An Open Letter to that Guy I Blew on 9/11

An Open Letter to that Guy with the Cigarette

Welcome to Your Uber Ride, Directed by Film Prodigy Darren Aronofsky

Everyone Says It Wasn’t My Fault

10 Things My Autistic Son Would Rather Do than Acknowledge the New Baby

New House Rules Now that I Have a “Rich Man’s Family”

An Open Letter to the Koala that Bit Me During My Australian Semester Abroad