Ana

she was the first boy I had ever kissed and I wanted to be kissing a boy but I wanted so badly to be a girl while doing it



The Punisher

That week a nazi knocked J.P. down/ at the pride parade. ICE agents ate at the restaurant before raiding its kitchen.


June

and our bodies filled up like balloons and the concrete gave out beneath our feet




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Black and white photo of a man's bare back and the side of his face as he sleeps

Loon

When I wake up in the pit of night, I look at your shoulder, the slope of your neck, and—please don’t laugh at me—I see a message.


A spread of Aki Sasamoto's book Point Reflection. On the page, it writes "Why do you decide to go the other way" and there are illustrations of chemical instruments and a snail.

Everything That’s Not Now Feels Like Fiction

"I noticed that so many things felt very opposite, and I was interested in the experience of inhabiting this position, knowing how I felt when I was on the other side."


An image of a wooden right-angle ruler with an orange handle against a yellow background.

This Likert Life

How happy are you, after all—one to five—with this Likert life?


A vista of the Sonoran desert, with carious catci and the sun setting behind hills in the distance.

The Cirrus Circus

Our collective moisture and heat condensating in the sky, the first cycle of a dynamic and unpredictable climate in this new home: the end of her quest.