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 Cheap Cuts: Women’s Work I watched my mother trim fat from a cheap cut of meat, then sat with a butter knife to my thighs, ready to do the same. continue… |
 The Ties that Bind: Rape as a Job Hazard |
 I recognized a face on our Facebook alumni page as a secret I’d kept—the teacher who molested me. I’d developed a history of keeping silent and keeping secrets….continue |
 Every living thing has a survival instinct, a go-to strategy. Mine tells me to hide in small dark places. I don’t remember feeling a thing. I remember feeling nothing. This is how I survive being unlovable….continue |
 I believe God, in his wisdom, made topless bars and whorehouses so lonely men have someplace to go. I sat next to David at the bar. He told me he had $10,000. In his pocket. I smoothed the fifty-dollar bill out on the bar and decided I didn’t like him, not one little bit…continue |
 If the crowd were still here they’d see a girl, maybe seventeen, maybe not even, spread-eagle in the center of the wrestling ring, staring up into the lights…continue |
 Menopause was the best thing that could have happened to me. It’s been years since I’ve had sex. I’m not celibate or sexless. I’m clearheaded. continue… |
 The medical community has jumped on the “if you can’t cure them, cash in” party bus. These “morning-after instant Dr. Feelgood IV cures” remove what generations of evolution built in for our own good: consequences. continue… |
 Some things you remember even the bad parts being good. Heroin is like that, for one example. The Mouse for another. She was still dark, gorgeous, hard. You could easily imagine her pulling a gun on you. |
 Part of what art is supposed to do is upset sensibilities and shake up the status quo. But there are other, unintended consequences. |
 Much in the same way TV and movies delete the laughter when portraying AA meetings, The Deuce has sucked all the fun out of Times Square. continue… |
| Don’t Be That Guy / BUST No means no. Really? Okay, so what about when she doesn’t say no? What about when she doesn’t say anything? That’s a loophole, right? It’s a get out of jail free card, isn’t it? continue… |
| Can Revenge Porn Save Your Life? / BUST Twenty-three women have filed suit against “Revenge Porn” site, Texxxan.com, and their webhost, GoDaddy (as if GoDaddy wasn’t already on your shit list). continue… |
| The Name Game: Yours, or Ours, but Not Mine / BUST So, you get married, and maybe you want to change your name to his. Or join the ranks of the hyphen-ates. What if he wants to change his last name to yours? According to the Florida DMV that ‘only works for women’. continue… |
ANTHOLOGIES
Whorephobia (Seven Stories Press/Penguin Random House 2022)
author’s contribution: “Mardi Gras”
Johns, Marks, Tricks, & Chickenhawks(Soft Skull, 2013)
author’s contribution: “Dating for Dollars”
Hos, Hookers, Callgirls & Rentboys (Soft Skull, 2009)
author’s contribution: “Killing Time”
Cosmopolitan Bedside Quiz Book: Great Sex & Relationship Quizzes (Hearst, 2003)*
author’s contribution: “What Kind of Sexual Vibe Do You Give Off?”
Penthouse-Between the Sheets (Grand Central Publishing, 2001)*
author’s contribution: “BiCuruious Female Seeking Same”
Bearing Life: Women’s Writing on Childlessness (Feminist Press, 2000)
author’s contribution: : “Tie Me Up, Tie Me Off”
The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin, 1999)*
author’s contribution: : “Lesson Number One”
Best American Erotica 1995 (Touchstone, 1995)*
author’s contribution: “Lesson Number One”
