Tag: genx
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Sit Down. Stay.
What does it feel like to live in the middle of grief? A personal essay on losing Jude, the Swamp of Sadness, and why the best thing you can do for someone grieving is simply sit down and stay.
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First Date
“I don’t appreciate what you said about my friends today.” I had no idea what she meant. That would turn into my first date. Read how it all happened.
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Do You Remember When?
One flavor of Doritos. Three sizes of drinks. A show inside a show inside a memory. Yesterday’s break room conversation turned into something bigger.
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Invisible
I found a slide from my 8th-grade graduation. My classmates were smiling. I wasn’t. I didn’t ask why. Nobody else did either.
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From Behind the Counter
Terry pressed his face against the glass and peered in at us. “Smokers,” he said. “In their natural habitat.” This is a story about a breakroom, a movie, and what we were promised.
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The Year We Made Our Own Rules
George Orwell wrote about 1984. I lived through it. They weren’t the same thing. Junior high was worse.