I visited Park City in Utah with my family, pretty recently. It was a quaint little city and it was such a good trip, overall. One of the activities we did while there was horseback riding, which I'm not a huge fan of, but I like horses and I like sight-seeing, so I figured I …
Butterflies (Creative Nonfiction)
“Love at first sight” is always portrayed like some hetero-normative, romance-movie hoax made up by people who didn’t want to give any effort to loving someone. It always sounded like a terrible excuse to justify a blinding obsession with a sculpted body or a glistening pair of ocean-colored eyes, as if we’re lying to ourselves …
Life After Pulse
By now, you probably should have heard about the United States' biggest mass shooting in history, which was targeted at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It has become abundantly evident that this was an attack on the LGBT community because of the shooter, Omar Mateen, and his negative attitude toward homosexuality. It has …
A Geek at Phoenix Comicon 2016!
So I went to Phoenix Comicon, this year! It's kind of like the more notable San Diego Comicon, but divide the size by approximately half and add the dread of going outdoors to do anything (it got up to 117 degrees Fahrenheit). This is technically my third time attending PHXCC (cool abbreviation? Cool abbreviation.) I had …
Pride Month is Here!
It's the beginning days of a great month for me and the rest of my LGBTQIA identifying friends, out there! It's a month where we celebrate the pride that we have as members of this community, as well as remember and honor those who paved a path for us to be as free as we …
War Zone (Flash Fiction)
I watched as Claire and Rebecca got up from the table, smiling and wishing me luck as they pushed through the crowd to the bar. Their long hair was the last thing I saw before I felt panicked. The liquid courage must not have been courageous enough, as I could quickly feel its effects leaving …
Section from Chapter 4 of “Hunted”: An Urban Fantasy/Sci Fi Novel (Fiction)
As a freshman in at Northern Arizona University, Isaac struggled to find importance in his life. The guitar club was full of losers who just wanted to use music for sex, and Isaac refused to associate with people he felt didn’t take music seriously. His degree in English wasn’t a burden, but it gave him …
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It’s a Journey | Creative Nonfiction
"If you can't love yourself, how can you love someone else?"I always thought this was a selfish phrase, something you would say to people who constantly complain about their feelings. As if you can't possibly love someone else because you hate the way you look in a mirror, think your creative endeavors are nothing more …
“Knowing Your Limits” | Stories of Self-Love
Welcome! "Stories of Self-Love" is a series about my instances of learning about self-love. It's a concept I struggle with a lot, not necessarily in understanding how it works, but putting it into practice. I'll talk about certain times when I realized how I was not tending to myself the way I should have, concepts …
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It’s Not Just A Belief (RE: Ending Friendships over Anti-LGBT Views)
So the Supreme Court of the United States (or SCOTUS, which looks AND sounds cool) recently legalized same-sex marriage for the entire country. Needless to say, I celebrated my heart out...as much as I could while working eight hours at an internship, and then going to my part-time job two hours after that. We still …
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