so, I ask you, will you allow yourself to picture the miraculous immeasurable sea

Where I wanted to hold, I gave way. Where I wanted to rest, I kept moving.

During my workouts I imagine the possibility that my mother and I are almost the same person, the same spirit.

All the gay boys wanted to be Samantha; we were no different.

When I was five, my father taught me the meaning of work. “Don’t be blue collar,” he said tugging desperately at the thick collar of his mechanic’s work shirt. “Be white collar.”

The double line of an at-home pregnancy test cannot predict the future.