Mates
How to Look at an Argument: Goodbye
“I told you all these lies because I was afraid you would leave me.”
What the World Gets Wrong About My Quadriplegic Husband and Me
They imagine I’m his “caretaker,” a loaded word, veritably stuffed with presumption.
How to Look at an Argument: “I Love You, Anthony.”
Once upon a time, in a land much larger than this one . . .
How to Look at an Argument: The Deal-Breaker
“It can’t work if I’m the only one willing to DEAL with things.”
How to Look at an Argument: The Metaphor
“What is this thing that stands between us?”
Fortunate Friends: A Leap Across the Wealth Gap and Into a New Home
A friend as your mortgage holder? It seemed like one of those things you should never, ever do.
Erasing “Pals”
Erasure poems contextualize and complicate the narrative essay “Pals: The Married Man and Me.”
Two Prefects, Touching
His name is Michael. We go to the same New England boarding school, and we are co-Prefects in our dorm of twenty-eight other teenage boys. He’s straight, I’m gay, and we’re just friends, nothing more. There’s no longing from me, or discomfort from him—we’re just two guys who serve as Prefects in a dorm together […]