...can I come live in your house?

I’ve made a hobby out of coining Trump insults. Here are today’s:

Thank you!

Hi Jezzies! My publisher just launched my first novel — a feminist retelling of The Phantom of the Opera! Here’s the trailer!

Until very recently, I practiced no face-magic at all. Now I owe one tube of color pop black lipstick and one tube matte blue.

Fantastic. I grew up in a children’s home in the South and this hit me viscerally. What’s that you’re feeling? Oh, nothing much. Just the eternal reverberations of a life without justice.

I’ve survived several knife fights - just one of the added benefits of growing up in an orphanage - and you really do have to accept that your arms are going to get cut up pretty badly but that’s infinitely better than getting hit in the face or the throat. In a knife fight, reach is your friend, and so is distance.…

Well, I taught at a Texas university over five years ago and even then I was threatened by a gun-toting parent who was angry that I was teaching his daughter about ‘abortion’. I didn’t bother explaining that Swift was writing, in a very tounge-in-cheek way, about eating babies which had already been born and so, at…

I love those babies. I worked at a zoo for a while and while they can, indeed, ruin your day they generally like the people who bring the buckets of frozen rats.

Not really. Her hygiene probably wasn’t the best, but if the hair tie had one of those little metal clamps on it holding it together then this is actually pretty likely. Loads of very virulent bacteria are attracted to aluminum, copper and tin. If you live in a humid environment, and the metal scratches your skin,…

Thank you for your internet hugs. I needed that!

Thank you. I’m hoping some good can come from it.

I’m in the UK. It’s half-one in the morning and this is the third night in a row that I have had no sleep. I’m from America and my parents ‘surprised’ spouse-person and I with a flight ‘home’ for Christmas. I am dreading, just absolutely dreading, taking this trip because my childhood was not the best (my parents sent…

My grandma had a surprise baby at 52. She just assumed it was menopause. A lot of the symptoms are similar. Then, the same thing happened to my aunt (at 50). Her first grandchild was two years older than her youngest daughter. This is why my Mom is still on birth control, and why I will probably never, ever stop using…

Oh my. It’s not that hard, people. If a person doesnt want to have sex, whatever their context, and you make them have sex, then you are guilty of rape. That’s it.

I’m married to a shorter guy (he’s 5’6, and broad as a bear) and I have to say that most negative reactions come from outside of our relationship. Family. There is definitely a height/status correlation in America that isn’t at all present in the UK. My family are southern and dominance is a pretty major thing for…

Nope. Not at all. Entitlement makes fantastic armor.

I’d like to, but it’s only been in print journals and my American collection. Here’s a link. http://writingknightspress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/the-go…

This is probably the worst thing that I’ve read in a long time.

It’s only been in print journals and anthologies, but it is in my American collection: http://writingknightspress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/the-go…