Tag: Romance

  • Pride at the Beach

    Pride at the Beach

    When I think of Pride, it’s not fit as hell gay men shirtless and decked in feathers dancing on a Chase bank float. It’s women running into the ocean shrieking with girlish laughter. It’s a little girl and her mothers at the beach building a drip castle. It’s kissing my love in the waves, tasting…

  • My First Novel!

    My First Novel!

    My first novel, Emma by the Sea, will be published by Bold Strokes Books May 2025! It is currently available for pre-order at your local indie bookstore (and Amazon and Target) and will be released to the wider world on 5/13. You can buy an early release E-book directly on the BSB website. Here’s the…

  • Embracing My Mess

    Embracing My Mess

    For most of my 20’s, I was stuck in a dating cycle. Trying to navigate life, let alone dating, with multiple chronic pain conditions, undiagnosed ADHD and undertreated depression and anxiety left me a strange mix of both hyper independent and also incredibly vulnerable.

  • Lauren, 1st and 8th

    Lauren, 1st and 8th

    Somewhere out in the cosmos There’s a map of New York And on certain street corners Scrawled under the bold type Of green and white street signs Are the names of the women I’ve kissed there The cartography of my life left in spit and lipstick and the echos of heckles On those sidewalks Just like the…