Short Stories & Essays

Violence, intimidation and hate: What it’s like working under siege at Planned Parenthood

Published by Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2015

When I first heard it, I thought it was a joke: Bank robber takes refuge in a reproductive health clinic. Not a funny joke, but a cruel one. As a former Planned Parenthood employee, I knew the early reports would prove false. I knew the Colorado Springs clinic was under attack...

Why I Always Wanted to Be a Secretary

Published by The New York Times, January 16, 2016

Lawrence, Kan. — I TOOK my first secretarial job in college, where I worked down the hall from a Triga Mark II nuclear reactor. I lasted just two lonely weeks, waiting to answer nonexistent phone calls and compulsively checking my radiation exposure badge...

Water Landing

Published by Karamu, Spring 2009

The Worst of It

Published by Khimairal Ink Magazine, January 2009

Other People’s Dead Relatives

Published by The Battered Suitcase, January 2009

Bad Mothers Make the News

Published by The Blue Collar Review, 2009

What Girls Are For

Published by Chiron Review, Issue 85, Winter 2008

A Splinter from the Devil’s Mirror

Published by The Big Stupid Review, November 2008

Topless Ladder

Published by Menda City Review, Issue 12, August 2008

I WENT TO THE INTERVIEW in a short black skirt, a white t-shirt, and too-small black pumps I'd borrowed from my upstairs neighbor. The club was quiet in the middle of the afternoon and not too smoky...

Of All the Cocks in the World

Published by The American Drivel Review, Volume 4 Number 2, Spring 2006

Short Stories & Essays

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