Dining Hall Work
This struggle to connect is one reason why students can feel disconnected from their university jobs and exclude them from their campus identities, preferring to invest their personal and social lives in the voluntary activities that better represent their interests.
Two Voices in the Night
And as the yelling continued, it became clear to me that we had done nothing — nothing, that is, except for being female and alone on a Saturday night.
Nominal Inheritance
I hate the thought of someday passing down the name Mahoney to my kids, and explaining to them that their name deprives them of a history.
Tanar, Tamar
Tamar also happens to be a character in the Bible known for being a prostitute — undoubtedly a solid legacy I have inherited.
Stories From My Grandfather
Prince Faisal kissed him, reached into his robe, and pulled out a revolver. Three shots rang out in the hall.
Dangerous Liaisons
I personally didn’t confess to myself that I had an impossible crush on my RCA until about a month in, impossible because of my sexual ineptitude, and impossible because so far, his role had been less disciplinary and more parental.
Wittgenstein in Shadow
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy’s most misunderstood philosopher.
Odi et amo
Constellations of pale paned light
lapse across shadowed walls
as the din of street stragglers
dissipates in the slums,
appetites for fucking or for food
finally mollified.
113 Hangover Cures
Hangover alchemy is a bit more involved than water and Advil.
Saturday Nights at the Marquis
After the show, we sit crosslegged in the theatre and smoke long thin cigarettes
and watch the smoke drift among the rafters, the tattered red velvet of the curtains
The daylily, Hemerocallis, continues to bloom for days after its scapes are cut
for L. When you left me here to rot aboveground—preferring a disintegration undersoil, solo—they did not publish the story in the paper, this being in poor taste, your being far too young to die, the Star-Ledger style guide answering the question of too soon as if it were mere matter of journalistic protocol: spell out […]