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Don’t Believe Women

I’ve never been sexually harassed. Perhaps there was a time when I was walking down the street from the library, and a car full of men whistled and hollered at me. Perhaps there was a time when a male friend messaged me. He told me in vivid detail how he’d…

Official Viridis Trailer

After years of fighting a war she doesn’t believe in, Jade Cavvar is being awarded for her efforts. But when an assassin makes an attempt on her life, Jade is forced down a path she never dreamed she’d walk. Stolen away from her home, she is brought to the land…

Breathe and Breathe and Breathe

4/4/19   I realized I was stressed today. I come to these moments of stress a lot, these moments of finding out a fear and anxiety that I have been holding onto for a long while but having no name for. During college, I frequently felt sick and stressed. A…

Queer

I sit in the corner of my room and listen to the bugs fly by. I wonder how long it’ll take to eat me after I die. To swallow me whole or piece by piece, A lifetime of anguish never to cease. Will they tell their family what they’ve devoured?…

The Movies

When I was in seventh grade, a boy from the eighth grade table turned, tapped me on the shoulder, and grinned. With a mouthful of food, he pressed his hands to his chest and sneered. “Do you think you would want to go out with me?” he asked, barely able…