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Silent Night
’twas the night before-and the gun shotsin the classroomswhere we once thoughtthey were safe therein their desk chairsand the pop testsand the noon restsand the roll calland the dead falland the alphabeton the blackboardthe NRA vile overlordssay take this gunfire awayhave fun thenwalk awaythe fluorescent lightsshine all nightin the silent hellwhere they all felland all…
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Quit Complicating Your Kids’ Questions About Gender and Sexuality
Every time legislation is passed that has anything to do with civil rights, things like being allowed to marry or use the bathroom in peace or whatever, people start using children as proxies for their fear and lack of understanding. It spreads like a rash across social media, this epidemic of made-up conversations kids are…
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On Beliefs, and Why They’re Irrelevant
Beliefs are opinions. They’re feelings. They don’t make a darn bit of difference because they live inside your head and nobody else is in there but you.
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Bliss
Assume the position It’s time for your daily 15 minutes of outrage time for furrowed brows and fingertips to lips and scripted measures of concern your eyes so blacked by ignorance you can’t see the gun in your hand. Let us pray for the victims this sorrowful collection of lone gunmen. Why does this keep…
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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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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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The Innkeepers
The innkeepers are waiting their flags are on display: sharp-edged stars and stripes like blood and bone
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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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The Always “Like A Girl” Commercial Tackles Gender Stereotypes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs Feminine hygiene products aren’t usually known for being empowering. They serve a purpose, sure, and those of us of the womanly persuasion are certainly grateful that they exist in their modern form, but they’re not exactly thought provoking, beyond “Hmmm, is today going to be a Super day or an Ultra day?” This commercial…
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Legal Medical Research Facility Raided by SWAT Team
I wrote this article last night for Liberal America. Imagine that you acquired your drivers license and bought a car that you registered, titled, got tags for, had inspected per state regulations, paid the taxes on. And one day as you’re driving down the road, you’re surrounded by police cars with their sirens flashing, voices…
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