Chapter Two: Spider Woman’s Loom
In the Carrizo Mountains, we spent the summer preparing for the wedding and I pretended interest to avoid punishment while looking for an opportunity to leave.…
Spider Woman’s Loom: Chapter One
Originally posted on lorie adair:
Seeing me now, with my hair thinning and skin rutted like a reservation road, you would not know that I was…
Violence Against Women is Not a Joke
Violence Against Women is Not a Joke.
Dear Mike Jeffries, “Abercrombie Kids” I Knew Wouldn’t Call You Cool
Originally posted on The Stretch For Something Beautiful:
When I was a teenager, we didn’t have Abercrombie & Fitch in my mall. I lived in a…
Adolescent-man
Recently, I sent a pithy comment to my Facebook friends asking for the manual for raising a fourteen-year-old boy. Cliche’ I know but the feelings of…
Fractured
There are snow mermaids among us idle angels terrified to plumb the icy depths of murderous woe. Their eyes thick with wax, smiles startled artifice,…
Seven
Emmalene wanted her daddy to be like everyone else’s. She wanted her daddy to do, to fix her bike chain when it fell off rather than…
