Review: Skinamarink

Death & Rebirth

The process of defining my own gender has been long and difficult. — I happily identified as female for the majority of my life (mostly, I think, because I didn’t know what other options there were). But when I started dating people who weren’t cis men, I started to see myself in a new light, one that was not entirely pink. I loved…

My cat is very sick and I am very scared. She vomits frothy liquid every day and I mop it up with tissues before spraying the carpet. I find puddles of diarrhea on piles of soft fabric and know she’s avoiding the litter box because it’s now associated with pain…

Hey, there lovely doofs! — I’m one of those awesome nerds who is choosing #DeathByNaNoWriMo this November, and I’m taking you along with me. I’m writing a (hopefully) literary novel called Salvaging the Lagan about: A schizophrenic homeless man in Los Angeles called Michelangelo by the voice in his head — “Mike” to those on…

This is the hardest piece I’ve ever written, the most heartrending experience I’ve ever endured, and so it took me ten months to finally write it real. But it’s one of my strongest pieces to date, in my opinion, and I am a stronger person for the choices I’ve made. Here is an excerpt from my latest essay for Ravishly — …