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Safe Spaces Within The Margins

*Content Warning: brief mention of sexual assault, addiction and self harm*Nearly six months after I became the victim of a violent sexual assault in September 2017, I sat on the back porch of our rental ...

it's unfinished

Right now I don’t know what I want: it moves, it changes. As a teenager, when I wrote to myself it was always in second person. I thought of it like that: writing to myself as if writing a letter. ...

underpass poems

These poems come from my back pocket.*In the interest of maintaining the formatting of the poems they are linked here as a viewable pdf and visible below as an image. 

2 dreams

The last dream I had about working at the coffee shop, I met one of my coworkers in a park that never existed. It was behind the Safeway up the street from our work. We talked a bit about how our lives ...

it changes

What makes us feel the need to change forms?I meet up for coffee with a friend who says she’s leaning towards photography these days. She says it allows her to be a technician. That makes sense to me. ...

show and tell – a catalogue of the small animals that live in my house

**This is the result of an exercise I did this week. The exercise was to find objects around the house and write about them. It's a good one for when my brain is moving slow, which it has been. In looking ...

it moves

A couple weeks back, V turned over in bed and asked me when she’d find her purpose. A day later my sibling, S, called me up and asked the exact same thing. “When will I find my purpose?” I didn’t ...

Location, Location, Location

I’m writing to you from the plane to London. I’m headed to my favourite city for ten days, following by a few days in Edinburgh visiting friends. Interspersed are trains to Cardiff and Cambridge.It’s ...

Why TV is Good for You

If your mother was like my mother, you were told to turn off the television as a child (in my case, Family Ties or Miami Vice or Murder She Wrote or. . .) and pick up a book. Any book. Because everyone ...

Ask Jane (Agony Aunt)

Hi, I’m Jane, and I’m the protagonist of Helen’s novel, Pull Focus. I’m taking over the blog today to answer questions readers may about me, or the book, or anything else. What’s an Agony ...