So many coming-of-age novels are set during high school, when things are obviously turbulent (puberty, dating, getting into college, having to wake up at zero dark thirty and go sit in a building with hundreds of your fellow crazy hormonal teenagers, etc.), but I’ve...
“Do you think I could?” Therese asked simply, before she could debate whether she dared to ask. “What!” Richard smiled. “Fall in love with a girl? Of course not!” – Patricia Highsmith The first time I was published in a literary magazine was because of a sort of...
“The Kármán line is the international boundary between the Earth and space. Due to inconsistencies in the Earth’s atmosphere this border is approximate. It marks the end of national boundaries and the beginning of what is known as / free space” (The Kármán Line,...
It was a three-day drive to cross from Maryland to New Mexico. While making our way west, somewhere between my brother’s home in Texas and our final destination Albuquerque, Spotify suggested an audiobook called Diavola by Jennifer Thorne. I was hesitant. I don’t...
TW: This post deals with eating disorders. Melissa Broder’s short novel, Milkfed, discusses a world often left untouched by literature, especially fiction, that world being the hellscape that is living with an eating disorder. In short, the book follows Rachel, a...
