What I Didn’t Tell You I Got For Christmas
“It’s sort of a parody of those angry, serious 20th writers and the people who revere them. ‘Am I a fan of that genre?’ No, can’t say that I am. But I think it’ll be funny?”
Six Little Letters
The word is a slur, certainly, but what word describing Queer folks isn’t?
Call For Audition Submissions
Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love to hear from you!
Animal People
I’m sure your dog is great, but I probably don’t care about your dog unless I care about you.
My Life as Told by Shayfer James and His Strange Ability to Read my Mind
The two times I saw Shayfer live this year, he played “God Forbids,” and both times I got held by friends while I cried.
The Time ‘The Lion King’ Saved My Uterus
The answer is “yes,” Sir Elton John. I could feel the love that night.
Nostalgia, But for What?
It’s hard to deny there’s something that I miss, even if it doesn’t make sense to me.
Promises
I remembered my baptism when I dipped my hand in the frigid blue water of a glacier, when I felt mist clinging to my face and dampening my clothes, when I watched the graceful, floating powdered sugar descent—deceptively powerful—of waterfall after waterfall after waterfall.
A Lament for Southwest Airlines
Southwest assumed the best of its passengers and treated them like smart, capable people. And we rose to the occasion.
Contra Time-Space Compression
I’m obsessed with the context that traveling by land brings to my destination, in a similar way that visiting a friend in their hometown is such a joy.
