The Onyx Clam

On·yx: noun /ˈäniks/ onyxes, plural A semiprecious variety of agate with different colors in layers Clam: noun /klam/ clams, plural (Slang) A woman's genitalia

Friday, May 18, 2018

Crumbs

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The carpet sits beneath me, a dirt painting on the ground another pretty girl pants under your silhouette you wanted a cracked water main...

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Men, and other Perpetrators of "Unbelievable" Stories

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It is a Saturday night and my phone chirps with all the wrong suitors. One time a man used the same breath to recommend I stop being such a...

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Saying Goodbye to April

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One hundred feet away I am an enticing splash. Two feet away I am slow drying cement. The grubby hands of uninvited schoolchildren fight ea...

The Rabid

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Read through every word you have written in the past eight months blinking at yourself in the mirror, every night for eighty days could y...

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

The Fantasy of Uniqueness

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Spring 2017. A woman I call mom always when I'm talking about her and never when I'm talking to her inquires about a new him. W...

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Woo! The aftermath.

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It's 1:58pm on a Tuesday and I'm not late when I see one of my favorites out of the corner of my eye. I'm fumbling with outdate...

Thursday, December 1, 2016

my sister, the mean one, pulling my hair

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Wake up. Go to class. It's critique day and I'm not an art major. Sad boys grow up to be accountants. Meanwhile, I'm in the bat...

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