I know what you're thinking. Introverts are people who are incredibly shy and taciturn. They wear black lipstick. They never ever have fun at parties. They rarely assert themselves, and they have like, one friend. This is all stereotypical nonsense, of course. Some of it may be true for some introverts - I have certainly been shy and have…
Month: March 2015
Sensing and Perceiving
At the wedding I wore a green dress and felt pretty, and it was disorienting because half the time you watched it, flickered, but then you stopped watching, and then I became ugly. I still chase dad sometimes, don't I - so charming and absent, who blinks my foundation to dust and rubble as if through magic.…
From High School Druggies to Witches and Queens
When I made attempts at writing novels and short stories as a teenager, all of my main characters were girls in the throes of pill addiction. (Prophetic in a way, as my pill addiction grew to its full force in my early twenties.) They were pretty girls addicted to "Demerol" and "Benzedrine" and "Valium." (The novels of…
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