- June 3, 2022
On my phone, I see a letter from an editor while I listen to the kettle boil. I get them every day. I’m a struggling writer and, aside from coffee, the most rewarding way to begin my morning is
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- June 3, 2022
Nutty Banana, Guava Sunrise, Berry Berry, Coconut Passion, Tropical Paradise. I clock into the smoothie shop at the same time every day. There’s usually already a line at the register when I walk in. The countertop, home to our
- June 3, 2022
2019: Danny and I are sitting in his mother’s living room on Christmas morning in 2019. The fire crackles behind me as we swap presents with his mother and brothers. Our pajama-clad bodies pass gifts to each other under
- March 16, 2022
Since this is a story about a road trip, I feel obligated to mention we weren’t supposed to take this road trip. About a month before my college move-in, my dad bought three plane tickets from San Francisco to
- March 16, 2022
Your daughter was always the first to be dropped off in the mornings and one of the last students to get picked up by five. She was a tornado. She spun from corner to corner to corner of the
- March 16, 2022
New York City, New York I would be lying if I said a part of me didn’t plan to fuck her despite the man waiting for me at home. I would be lying if I said that part of
- November 11, 2021
Onion stem provides support to the plant Back when we are still buying minutes for cell phones and saving our allowances to afford emojis, my mother suggests that I get a job at the local grocery store. Feeling myself
- November 11, 2021
1. Warsaw, Poland The two big windows of my childhood room are like soulless eyes, staring and judging me while I play M-rated video games and read short stories that my mother hid behind her regular books, out of
- June 3, 2021
As a sixteen-year-old, first-generation Indian boy, I have been using skin whitening products for ten years. And until a year ago, I did not know that it wasn’t okay. I write this essay under a pseudonym because I am
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