Compulsory heterosexuality and my non monogamy — I left Matt’s dingy white tiled apartment building on a high, deciding to walk home astride the shimmering lights of New Canterbury Road, introspective the entire way. …

I was stale drunk when Samuel and I started talking on Hinge three weeks ago, that expired feeling you get after being on the sauce all day, being close to throwing up and actually throwing up, all before 7 PM. I had recently changed the age range of my dating…

A cupboard full of canned goods triggers my deepest insecurities — When I was 11 years old, I watched the second Jurassic Park movie, The Lost World, and had a panic attack about a giant meteor hitting the Earth and causing the end of the world. I lay in bed and pushed my open eyes into my pillowcase, imagining the last…

Is it possible to both create meaningfully and exist purposefully? I am incredibly worried that mediocrity is beguiling me into believing I’m a good writer. It’s similar to the suspicion I get when my Mother tells me I am beautiful, but only does so because she has to, because she…

I sit on the train and play with the piece of curly hair behind my ear. Not exactly a distraction, but sometimes if I stop doing it I fear the world will become unhinged and my resting hands will be the cause of some sort of disaster. …