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November 20, 2015

The Smallest Ones

In my nightmares, there are children playing in a field of tall grass, so tall that the only way I know the children are there is by the sound of their voices and the way the grass moves as they run. Then there are men, impossibly tall men, dressed all in camouflage, with guns strapped…

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November 19, 2015

Refuge.

They are laughing in the sand, their high-pitched voices crossing over and under each other and up into the sky into the clouds dirty hands reaching for each other, circling around singing songs whose words we cannot recognize but the tune is universal; nursery rhymes are all the same. They are smaller than the dogs…

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November 19, 2015

Faces.

This is how we live with our sidearms drawn our fingers free of scars and polished

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November 16, 2015

The Innkeepers

The innkeepers are waiting their flags are on display: sharp-edged stars and stripes like blood and bone

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September 28, 2015

Asheville’s Helpmate Hosts a Vigil to Help End Domestic Violence

A portion of the royalties from my latest book, Spine, will be used to benefit Helpmate, a local non-profit organization that helps women and their children who are in, escaping, and recovering from domestic violence situations. There’s a popular myth that women stay because they love their abusers and think they’ll change. That is certainly…

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July 17, 2015

On Being Open-Minded, and the Freedom of Belief

Your right to believe in something does not negate others’ right to exist with the same rights and standard of living that you have.

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June 30, 2015

The Sesame Street Theory of Gay Marriage Resistance, or, How the Ernie Shirt Fucks You Up

When I was very small, I loved Sesame Street. I especially loved Ernie, and I had a special Ernie shirt that I had to wear every time it came on. I would run to my room, grab the shirt, put it on and run back and park myself in front of the TV, anxiously awaiting…

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June 28, 2015

Pat Robertson on Anal Sex: Christians Will Like It

Robertson claimed that “You’re gonna say that you like anal sex…”

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June 26, 2015

Gay Marriage Ruined My Life: A Right Wing Fairy Tale

I don’t know where to begin with this. One year, six months, and five days ago, I got straight married. This morning, that marriage is over, the sanctity of it ripped apart by the selfish ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The Court has ruled that states no longer have…

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June 25, 2015

Flags, Fags, and Gun Control: Notes from the Histrionic States of America

When I was about 14, I decided that everything my mother did was designed with one purpose: to ruin my life. Liver for dinner? She was trying to either poison me or starve me to death. No talking on the phone until after my homework was done? She was obviously trying to destroy my social…

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April Fox

Category: politics

Faces.

On Being Open-Minded, and the Freedom of Belief

The Sesame Street Theory of Gay Marriage Resistance, or, How the Ernie Shirt Fucks You Up

Pat Robertson on Anal Sex: Christians Will Like It

Gay Marriage Ruined My Life: A Right Wing Fairy Tale

Flags, Fags, and Gun Control: Notes from the Histrionic States of America