I Met Dean In The Woods One Day, Now I Can Never Go Back
Disappearances happened sometimes in Riverview, but the disappearance of the Sheriff’s daughter didn’t happen.
Disappearances happened sometimes in Riverview, but the disappearance of the Sheriff’s daughter didn’t happen.
I didn’t tell you off. I didn’t cry. I didn’t leave your house. I didn’t even leave your bed.
For future reference, though, maybe don’t make your future endeavors feel like they’re your everything when you’re planning on upping and moving across the country.
At 24, I can now reflect on the whole process, and can highlight the reasons why going to community college was actually the perfect choice.
It was some weekend morning—they all seem to become one these days— when I woke up, rolled over toward my laptop,…
“This was humiliating, unsexy, and, worst sin of all, boring. This wasn’t comfort. This was paralysis. This was distance passing for connection.”
With the spooky season upon us, it’s time to make a list of dudes to not make out with this Halloween.
We know what to say to a woman who has been abused by her male partner. We know how to condemn it, how to demand that it ends. But when I’ve told longtime friends of mine the truth, I see in their eyes that they don’t know what to say.
Sure, tourists want to have an adventure and a new experience, but who gets to decide what is authentic, what is the ‘real’ Bushwick or Hell’s Kitchen, or DUMBO? Who are the people coming up with these concepts? What is the impact of a branded place on our city?
What am I afraid of? Why is he watching me? Where is he? I feel like I can’t breathe.