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A dream

A dream

thoughts are covered by old bed-sheets.

A dark green bullfrog lifting its head out of dark water.

Fred and Mauve

Suplex

Suplex

Whirl

Whirl

Two skydivers plummeting out of the clear blue sky.

Into the Pit

updated bio.docx (Or, Another Possible Explanation For What My Problem Is)

updated bio.docx (Or, Another Possible Explanation For What My Problem Is)

Madness

Madness

Fiction

A dark green bullfrog lifting its head out of dark water.

Fred and Mauve

They waste their lives this way, holding out for a fairy tale existence.

Two skydivers plummeting out of the clear blue sky.

Into the Pit

Phone Calls

Phone Calls

A casual office party, with two groups of people standing and talking in front of a low lit table, scattered drinks around.

Wit's End

Two seasoned steaks frying in a cast iron skillet.

Whisper

A Life Well Slept

A Life Well Slept

A biege mixing bowl with a pouring lip, a mix of flour and eggs in it, with a whisk hanging out of it.

Nesting Bowls

Flash Fiction

Suplex

Suplex

Gran is very old and her bones are brittle, so her chest caves in. But she’s alive.

updated bio.docx (Or, Another Possible Explanation For What My Problem Is)

updated bio.docx (Or, Another Possible Explanation For What My Problem Is)

YuleKing

YuleKing

A beer bottle in front of a blurry skyline, the lights of the horizon faded to fuzzy dots.

Waiting For The Dealer

A heavy traffic jam at night, the road illuminated by the brake lights of cars disppearing into the horizon.

Evacuation

Momo Twins

Momo Twins

Eduardo

Eduardo

Flash Nonfiction

A field of pink tulips, two out of focus bicycles standing upright in the background.

Band on the Run

Violence permeated most aspects of our lives.

Oklahoma, 1985

Oklahoma, 1985

Tell Me That One Again

Tell Me That One Again

Thank God

Thank God

Light Switch

Light Switch

Hot Streak

Hot Streak

The Egg Essay

The Egg Essay

Nonfiction

Coming Home

Coming Home

Everyone is always ripped open here–it must be something in the air.

A woman standing outside holding her phone with both hands to text with her thumbs. Her face is outside of the frame.

bitch

The black keys of a typewriter partially in frame against a stark white background.

Forfeiture of Nuance in the Rise of AI

A to Z

A to Z

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

Divorce-o-rama: Divorce as a Dark Ride

I Went to Disney World and All I Got Was This Identity Crisis

I Went to Disney World and All I Got Was This Identity Crisis

Growing Up With a Low Rent Robin Williams

Growing Up With a Low Rent Robin Williams

Poetry

A dream

A dream

thoughts are covered by old bed-sheets.

Whirl

Whirl

Madness

Madness

i had a dream last night that Stone Cold Steve Austin was helping me rearrange furniture and i kept calling him Stone instead of his actual name but he was fine with it

i had a dream last night that Stone Cold Steve Austin was helping me rearrange furniture and i kept calling him Stone instead of his actual name but he was fine with it

love letter to the moon or maybe my adderall prescription or maybe something else entirely

love letter to the moon or maybe my adderall prescription or maybe something else entirely

why

why

we all need

we all need

Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

POEM IN WHICH I READ TRANS

POEM IN WHICH I READ TRANS

CW: anti-trans violence

Death Works at Trader Joe's

Death Works at Trader Joe's

Shakespeare’s Cumslut 🥵😏

Shakespeare’s Cumslut 🥵😏

Three Poems on the Angel Gabriel

Three Poems on the Angel Gabriel

Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?

Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?

Teaching Anthony Bourdain to Eat Crawfish

Teaching Anthony Bourdain to Eat Crawfish

Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022

Holtz Children's Hospital, 2022

Laurel’s Tired of People

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A Life Well Slept

Bioluminescence

In which the alien from "Alien" plays basketball

Through Some Coincidence

Grief

Trent Wants Your Best Sentence

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GAZE

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

Night Librarian in the Lower Stacks

The Power of Love

The Name Of The Buyer Was Not Disclosed

AJ Will Meet You at the Dive Bar

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Tell Me That One Again

Thank God

Lost Arts

Troubles

Light Switch

Heather Wants Your Summer Lovin'

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Rememberary

Midsummer Commoner

On Speaking

Stupid in Love

To You, In All Your Brilliance:

Ben Thinks You Should Leave

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Santa

journal (take #4)

It Could Happen at Any Moment

Cancellation

Has This Ever Happened to You?

Inbal is Feeling Fabulous

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A study of the common vampire

Fee Fee’s Curse

How to Travel to a Parallel Universe

The Guest Room

Jello Melon

nat raum presents the JAKE Biennale

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The Filthy Bass at 0:44 on "...goingtohell" by Miguel

A Poem With a Painting And A Dead Poet, A Poem With a Hole

Saturn Devouring His PizzaChi

Bursting Bubbles and Other Myths

smash and grab

Ashley's 'Last Call' Call

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Even the scarred can dream on New Year's Eve

every time i sigh i can’t help but think i’m getting a little taste of what it's like to die

November

First snow

Dead or Alive

Elena Wants to Get Stabbed By an Icicle

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more follies and feathers

Waiting to Melt

Frost King

How To Break Up With A Toxic Loved One: a handy guide to being civilized instead of honest

The Ice Pick That is Made of Ice

Kaydance’s Seasonal (movie) Sestina Spectacular!!!!!!

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The Years Without a Santa Claus

when i think of jason bourne i think of christmas

Sestina Written on the Way Home for Christmas

Katherine and Natalie are Anti-Time

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Strangers

Crimes We Commit in the Future

To Cure a Thing

Role Play Game

november 20

Nominated for Best of the Net 2024

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How to be a daughter

Why My Dissertation is Late

Postcolonial Takeout Discourse

The Couple in 5F

kylie jenner / gun baby poem

Nominated for Best of the Net 2023

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Embodying Language

Under the Thumb of Patriarchy

The Widowmaker Tried to Kill Me, But Failed Miserably

the reason my insides are so swollen

(safe house)

From the JAKE Staff

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a million gods would kill for this job

Modern Poetry

my father votes in favor of capital punishment

i realized i forgot to say i love you

My Father, the Comedian