Why Date an Inmate? For the Sense of Security
I have a new piece up at Slate today. This is, I think, the most personal thing I’ve ever written. I hope […]
“I Was Told There’d Be Cake” by Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley didn’t grow up in a broken home, or a broken neighborhood. She wasn’t abused and didn’t abuse alcohol or drugs. She has two loving parents and one fun sister, and very few truly bad things seemed to have happened to her.
A Dreamer of the Golden Dream
On evenings like this, when the breeze spreads upward and lifts the hood of my jacket off my eyes, when the air holds the crisp promise of spring just above my head, with the blue dusk slowly creeping upon me, I think of all the paths open to me–all of the possibilities of my life, all of the places I will go. For most of my life, I wanted nothing more than to move to California. My parents moved to Delaware before […]
Melody Schreiber 