A Lot of Other Women - The Rumpus (Oct 2024)
“Twenty 12-year-olds simmer with conspiracy, bud mouths set. Just a handful of us have had a period, a first kiss. But we stay silent, quivering with the power to make a grown man blush and brush chalk dust from his tweed...”
Submersions - The Sewanee Review (Summer 2024)
“I can speak without words, my body being read by another body. There is pleasure to be unearthed, pleasure in excavating, in skin and sting and selfhood. Pleasure that needs no apology, no etiology, pleasure in gasping want…”
Delivery - The Georgia Review (Winter 2020)
“After seven weeks, blood that should be inside her body runs outside her body, enough that she guesses it’s over. But it isn’t…”
School for Girls - Longreads (June 2019)
“I loved being one of your girls. I wasn’t your favorite, but I didn’t need to be. What we had was different.”
Before the Bell - Hobart (May 2019)
“The best part is first thing, that hot blur of hands. There are no boys, just girls, and before class we share things: combs, lotion, lip-balm…”
The Grindstone - Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood (August 2018)
“I was two weeks old the night we met in SoHo and you showed me how the world works. Back then, I still couldn’t sleep through the night…”