The Socially Hopeless’s Guide To Networking
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The Socially Hopeless’s Guide To Networking

or, How To Network As A Social Troll Who Knows No One I hate networking. I hate it. I absolutely hate it. I hate sitting across from someone with overpriced coffee trying not to smudge my lipstick and think of witty things to say while I try to act like…
February 20, 2023Posted inAdvice
It Gets Heavy
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It Gets Heavy

First published in Divot: A Journal of Poetry It gets heavy, carrying around the people I used to be. They’re so small, so naive, so sad and angry and hurt And I want to bubble wrap them all. I want to tell them you’re safe now I want someone to…
September 20, 2022Posted inPoetry
Something to Carry the Grief
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Something to Carry the Grief

Marceline, Missouri, Walt Disney’s hometown, reaches an average high of 86 degrees Fahrenheit in July, thirteen degrees cooler than its gilded Floridian mimicry, Main Street USA. I imagine when paperboys shouted from the street corners in knickers and knee high socks in Missouri, the soles of their shoes did not…
September 20, 2022Posted inCNF