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Nonfiction
Interviews
Since I was little I was always wondering, What makes people tick?
Narrative High School Writing Contest
Women should hate it when people whistle at their backs as they walk past.
Nonfiction
Later, in a sudden about-face, she gives herself to him entirely.
Story of the Week
I grew accustomed to seeing the sun rise and set from the school.
Nonfiction
Why do girls want to cheerlead? Don’t they know it objectifies women?
Narrative Taste
Why kill something so mild-mannered, entertaining, and sociable?
Story of the Week
I could not tell what visions were vanishing in the dying slave.
Nonfiction
They do good things for us, the bats. But we do not want them there.
Features
I wanted from my father what I had never wanted or sought: his advice.
Features
My advice can be succinctly expressed in three words: Persist, persist, persist!
Features
Getting answers is easy. The difficult thing is knowing the right questions.
Story of the Week
I am always hungry & wanting to have sex. This is a fact.
Features
If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Features
Follow your dog, and you might just live to write for another day.
Features
Needless to say, when it was my night to read I was beyond terrified.
Features
Reviewers are curs and their opinions are not to be taken seriously.
Features
To see—and to see properly—is the writer’s central responsibility.
Features
I worry that I will be kidnapped by my cab driver and driven to an ATM.
Features
It is only the failures of love that I regret, those times when I did not give myself so generously.
Features
Writing is a subversive activity that exempts you from the rules.
Features
Truths don’t eclipse each other—they only complicate each other.