Two Concurrent Letters

Dear Women Who Love Women, I am sorry. I tried, but no luck. With love and sincere longing, A (Regretfully) Straight Girl Hey Men Who Love Women, You are my only recourse. With resignation and reluctant resolve, A Straight Girl

Some Days

Some days you wake up and get on the subway already angry with the world. You are tired from a long week/weekend/day/night so you get on and you are already done with everyone around you. You look at a rabbi sitting down reading the Torah, flanked by a black woman and a hispanic woman and…

Omphalophobia

Bellybuttons freak me out and the girl standing across from me is unconsciously using the pole to play peekaboo with hers. It is not a full innie nor a full outie. Instead it looks like her bellybutton is trying to push itself out of her body. A small, fleshy nub nestled just inside the rim of the…

Dear Brain

Dear Brain, I am healthy, have a good job, two degrees, a healthy and loving romantic relationship, and am writing almost regularly – could you please stop trying to convince me that I am a failure or that I am doing something wrong? I really would just like to enjoy feeling happy. Sincerely, Anxious Twenty-Something…

Dearest Most Important Inspiration

Dearest Most Important Inspiration, Why do you always come to me right when I am about to fall asleep or in the middle of the night on my way back from the bathroom? You must know that I will not remember you in the morning and that I don’t want to write you down because then…