Writing

Essay |

“The Gift of the God”

“… they come shopping for organic tomatoes because they heard organic might cure their cancer or black lung. They come lugging their oxygen-tanks along with them …”

Essay |

“Rated M For Mature”

“When I ask him if he thinks Grand Theft Auto could influence kids in negative ways, he says, ‘Maybe some kids. But Mom, I know it’s just a game.'”

Fiction |

“The Other Side of the Dock”

“Looking at the sea too long made me nauseated, thinking inevitably of biology classes, of the teacher’s amphibious hands, explaining the cycle of life and of all those fish reproducing themselves so close to me, in a lukewarm salty broth.”

Fiction |

“Grayscale”

“The Polaroid is about capturing a moment when something in the body snaps, dislocates, tries to find its way back. It’s about maintaining a standard.”