In 2023, I was at a crossroads. I needed to do something. I needed the Bi+ Book Gang.

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A Lot of People Live in This House is celebrating its first birthday! Now that I’m an expert (ha), here are 5 things I’d do differently.

Having lived communally for many years now, I’m always pleasantly surprised when people respond with fascination when I tell them that I...

Striped I fell from a dock in the summer, split my hand open like a ripened fig, blood drip-dropping to ruddy the waves while I gulped...

This year has already been so busy. Marriage. Grad School. Research Project. Promotion. And now, at last, I can put my dream on that...

With school in full swing, creative writing has taken a back seat outside class. However, readings about illness narratives have...

Dry Socket I’m bad at being an invalid, so I keep angel teeth in my pocket and crunch them up into dust so I can commune with the dead...

Double Helix Breakdown She’s waiting for spiders to crawl from her fingernail ridges and ride into battle, feeling their history as they...

Creative pursuits are a practice, and you have to show up for them or they won’t show up for you. Last month, I made sure to answer a...

For the month of June, I’ve challenged myself to answer one prompt out of 642 Things To Write About. So far, so fine. Writing short form...

My flash fiction piece “Wellspring Wandering” was published by Bait/Switch, which is a unique journal because it is intensely...

Her knee jiggles. Incessant anxious energy has made its home in her veins, moving through her as steadily as blood. Today, though, the...

For Paul Farmer: You lived a life full of good works. Though you now rest, your work lives. Thank you. The young man who lives above the...

This is an old piece I always thought of doing something with. Looking back at it now, I’m happy to let it be. It’s been such a long time...

In the attic there lives a ghoul. His name is Frank. He is not loud. He does not take up much space. He does not eat food. If you didn’t...

In Salem, there are a lot of doors. There are a lot of doors to be seen and a lot of doors to be seen by the right pairs of eyes. Not...

Every year, the master’s students I work with at Harvard give a five-minute presentation on the work they’re doing out in the field. It’s...

Madelyn sets the crossword to the side. None of the answers are right, but she still managed to make everything fit. Making yourself...

Madelyn finishes The Plain Dealer’s daily crossword puzzle in thirty minutes flat. She gets up from the kitchen table for a second cup of...