The Right Kind of Sick
I have never been able to vomit in the cute, clean, efficient manner I’m supposed to. When I purge, the contents of my stomach…
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Appetites
Last night while eating dinner, I watched an episode of Easy, starring Emily Ratajowski. I messaged a girlfriend, saying that Emily’s body made me…
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Juliet’s Tomb
On the train to Verona, I thought about Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. When I first watched it, I dreamed I was Juliet night…
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Car Man
I moved house and within two weeks my car is stolen. Welcome to the neighbourhood. The same week a neighbour down the street paints…
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Review of a Band I Hope Never to Hear from Again
Saturday night. The dark dingy back room of a pub. Four guys on stage, mostly guys off the stage. Vocals, guitar, bass and drums….
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On Being Eleven
When we were eleven, we rode bikes, planned secret rendezvous behind the sports-equipment shed and wore masses of butterfly clips in our hair. When…
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Mensa Material
You reach over to steady the dozen drinks in their cardboard trays as you drive back to the editing suites in Santa Monica. You…
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Auntie
The sun flashes through gap-toothed pines. Cottonwood seeds wheel over the white roof of the supermarket, hitting the windows of the cars that rip…
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