I'm so sorry for your plight:( but it sounds like your writing habit my benefit and help you heal from this ordeal. Happy writing and blessings of words to you and your pen.

oh and YAY SEX!!!!

omg! I hope everything works out. It's sounding like it is starting to even out at least! I've been on Dilaudid before when I've been admitted for ovarian cysts (maybe that was it if you're not totally convinced by the IED analysis). Every other month I have cyst issues bc my left ovary is actually the devil and…

ahhhh!!! Wish I lived in DC so I could be with you always. I would bring whiskey.

I dropped out at 20 due to depression! I'm now 26, graduating in May, and looking forward to graduate school. Advice: GO FOR IT AND KILL IT!

Also can we get an article about the kid who is such a damn pussy that he called out a blind kid for "beating him up." Uh because when I was 8 (I was a farm kid) if you did that, the rest of the class would've gathered after school with ACTUALITY sticks and beat the living tar out of you.

sounds like the school board and staff need to be made to participate with pool noodles rather than pens for a few weeks. Blind em too. What a bunch of dickfaces. Can't wait to get out of this shit pit city.

this is an incredibly poignant article, beautifully written and so powerful. Congrats on your MFA as well as your fellowship. I am currently applying to MFA a schools and was wondering if you had any insider tips ? Thanks!

Okay DUDE. Get a membership to a different golf course then

Saying "fake rape allegations" is the same thing as "jumbo shrimp" or "almost safe" or "awfully nice" or ya know, ANY OTHER OXYMORON EVER.

"no motherfuck I DONT" HAHAHAHA Eileengency you're fucking hilarious and on point.

you, ninja, are on point. cheers.

Uh thank you. this is horseshit.

Usually I don't read Nicki Manaj articles here because her music is just for people who make poor decisions. But I'm giving this article a solid NOPE and side eye.

BEST PART!! immediately white-faced and terrified

laughed until i cried at "reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan." You KNOW if you put that out there on some republican blog tea party grave robbers will be at his tomb en masse in under twenty minutes.

There's a certain mixture level of Bush and White that this country can not handle. A present named "Jeb Bush" is the pinnacle of this mixture.

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we are literary nerds. there's a lot of people that are cooler than us.

They could've just sold pictures of the Senate and marketed the same way...