When I was a small child, my mom’s nickname for me was Elf Queen. During that first period of my life (when I wasn’t voraciously reading) I was constantly creating and inventing characters and worlds, whether by drawing, writing, or becoming them. As young as five or six years old, after writing my first-ever story… Continue reading A Little About the Author
Category: personal anecdotes
The River
In the shower the water rushes over my shoulders as it did earlier, when I sat in the bowl of a small waterfall and let the chill gush take my breath away. In the river, I crawled like a creature; I enticed my lover as a fairy might, arranging my body in pools of sunlight… Continue reading The River
LSD with a Lover
I’m watching you turn somersaults in my kitchen with quickly increasing agility. The muscles in your shoulders coil briefly as you place your weight in your hands before lowering your upper back smoothly to the floor. You take up most of the room, as you do in all the small rooms of this apartment, but… Continue reading LSD with a Lover