My sister used to tell me she hated me for my hair. She wanted her wavy, frizzy hair to grow stick-straight like mine, to be left alone...

when you grow up in chaos, you never really learn what safe feels like. the fear of your parents’ arguments the shame of leaving with...

My mom is burning leaves and there is ink drying. The smoke is white this morning, and doesn’t stray from its column. Its smell is...

Who am I? Who have I been? Who do I want to be? My name is Sabrina Herrmann my initials sound like ‘essay’ if you say them fast enough I...

I glanced up from the notebook I was scribbling in to watch you stride into the room. You were still wet from another one of your long...

“Log log log! Ladies who log regularly are more aware of what’s going on down there.” It has been 96 days since my last period, a record....

People say I’m quiet and keep to myself, but when I try to share they only hear what they want to hear... or it becomes about them....

I don’t know where you came from or why you chose me. The pursuit was a swift one. On the strength of your disguise and the dreams you...

Frosted with bitterness, sprinkled with self loathing and ruefully self-aware. Trials, falls, failures. Her righteous rage poised...

who were to be my father-figures are dead. I witnessed their burials in the lands they thought they owned. They were the last to know of...

In the days after we break up, I become obsessed with the idea of planting a lemon tree. I have been cautioned by all of my plant-loving...

Snapping his fingers at the steaming cutlery before me the restaurant manager says, Dry this, one piece at a time until I can see my...