LJ Idol: Season 10, Week 2
Dear friend, We have known each other so long that I had to write you this letter. I thought about just fading into the background and letting you think that my busy life in the city was what kept me...
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Everything is a struggle in this god-forsaken city.That’s where I was, six or seven years ago. I wanted to get out of dodge. I wanted to be able to shop for groceries without having to haul heavy bags...
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LJ Idol Friends & Rivals: Week 7
I have started and stopped this so many times. Two years ago you gave me a gift I didn't realize at the time and I begged you to takeitback.It took weeks of bottles of bourbon to unwrapthe present and...
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LJ Idol Friends & Rivals: Week 6
It was all very typical queer Brooklyn. She was a writer, born to academics, working on her PhD in 16th Century French Poetry, which she'd chosen "to break away from the Golden Age of Russian...
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LJ Idol Friends & Rivals: Week 5
"I bought her an organic bed and everything," a mother told me recently, "but she won't sleep in it. She sleeps with us."This is the NYC nannying game.I have minded children from the time I was a child...
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LJ Idol: Friends & Rivals, Week 4
Note: I wrote a song this week and recorded it myself. This is really, really going out on a limb for me. Songwriting isn't something I usually do, let alone something I do in ~48 hours. (In fact, it...
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[Note: this entry has a great deal of profanity, proceed with caution] My mother stopped trying to get me to wear dresses to holidays a decade or so ago. I've always preferred a more casual look,...
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LJ Idol: Friends & Rivals, Week 1
They met in a bar, which surprised all her friends because these days, everyone met online. "Not even online," Marlene had said. "On an app! No one actually meets in a bar anymore."It surprised her...
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Just dropping by to say that I plan to participate in the LJI Mini Season (as an individual, unless someone recruits me hard for a team). xx
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LJ Idol, Week 25
[TW for suggestions of DV fueled by alcohol and rape] She was the overwatch. There were no guns involved, but she was the supporting unit. No tanks, but it was unquestionable that she had taken a...
View ArticleLast Chance Idol, In the Garden
In the garden at the big house on the shore, there were hydrangea bushes that came back blue and lavender and white and pink and white each year, the pride and not of my great-grandmother. I would sit...
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I dropped from Idol because I had a lot going on. I was hoping to have a few weeks in between as a vacation, but Gary had Last Chance Idol ready to go almost immediately. So, I'm going to see if I can...
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LJ Idol, Week 20
Why The Forests Are Tall: A FableIn the early days of the Earth, before there were bears and people and other creatures, the grasses and plants and trees grew very low to the ground, and the forests...
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LJ Idol, Week 17
"I'm so proud of you," Aunt Brenda told me. "I know you'll get accepted." It was the afternoon, Christmas Day. We were standing around chatting while Uncle Rick sliced turkey and ham. I'd just told her...
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LJ Idol, Week 16
A terrible beauty is bornThere is a moment after the chaos of a wreck that is unimaginably silent. I wasn't expecting it, after the glass shattered and the car's horn sounded, first a warning, but it...
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Reconciliation My god, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. Is lying more of a sin if you're lying to a priest during confession? I realize, of course, that it sort of defeats the purpose. But...
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Dear M., Someday, or now, but in an alternate universe, or in a previous life or one still to come, we will have our adventures together. It may be brief, like the 24 hours we once spent intertwined...
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LJ Idol, Week 12
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed.I spent most of my childhood influenced by my older sibling. At eleven, I listened to Weezer and Hole and Nine Inch Nails. At ten, through a combination of young...
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LJ Idol, Week 11
"I'm mad at you," she said. "You don't answer my calls as often as you should."It was true that lately, I hadn't taken her calls frequently. After moving house and grieving the end of a many year...
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