Tucker Leighty-Phillips Discusses "Maybe This is What I Deserve"
TLP: Even when you’re critiquing something, you have to have an element of hope. A yearning for something better being out there, and possible.
Nonfiction
liar, liar
Once we’ve locked ourselves into the hallway bathroom—which is ridiculously nice for a frat house, what the hell—I take one look at the group and decide that our only solution is to lie our way out.
How to Grow a Nice Girl / On Nursery Rhymes, Suffrage, Spice, and Everything (Not) Nice / That’s What Memory is Made Of
“Why can’t a nice-looking girl like you act nice,” the principal asked.
My Life Has a Purpose, My Life Has a Plan
Now he’s LA and airplanes and travels a lot. In high school Dane was “I don’t want anyone to know we’re related if you talk about church stuff” and “you can’t say that here.”
The Dog Days of Living
Just before midnight, my cousin, her owner, is asleep at a hotel in Florida that does not allow dogs, but is so luxurious that she would leave Holly in New Jersey under the care of a 21 year old.
Surviving the Forest
Perhaps it is my subconscious telling me to die in the pines and the snow, better than to die alone in the root cellar, where tossed-out tools are ornaments that shine and sing.
Did Being Neurodivergent Mean I Hated Boybands and Mondays?
‘I’m a freak, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here, I don’t belong here’ -Creep, Radiohead 1992