debut collection of stories & poems by me
published by maison kasini, 2012

anxiety, email relationships, owl people, awkwardness, facebook, humiliations, shortcomings, groundhogs, terrible personal decisions, videogames, coping, girly arms, cat seizures, etc.

'one of our favorite writers,'
-kirsten mccrae, papirmasse

‘a unique voice, with striking details,’
-josip novakovich, author of three deaths

‘depressingly hopeful, like looking at yourself naked in the mirror,’
-lizy mostowski, soliloquies

get it here

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I AM MY OWN BETRAYAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. vaster emptiness achieved

2. I am on mdma let me give you life advice

3. when I was seven at summer camp I awoke in the middle of the night and shat on the beach by the moonlight

4. banhood (read here)

5. I don't know what a poem is but it's not preventing me from writing poems

6. poems are for no one, very long poems are for themselves

7. and how they all fell to and speedily devoured the muskallonge that had eaten the carp

8. I have girly arms and I mean it (read here)

9. I hate myself

10. my phone remembers all your excuses

11. on my heart there is a button I have pushed

12. I am someone's dream husband (read here)

13. severely handicapped samosa

14. a synonym for 'love' is the word 'escape.'

15. karpman drama triangle

* book cover by celia spenard-ko.