People who tell you their kids are perfect are big, fat liars.
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SHELF LIFE: My Pandemic Diary: February 12, 14 & 15, 2021
You never saw so many people excited about 7 inches.
SHELF LIFE: My Pandemic Diary: January 28 & 31, 2021
I hobbled to the bathroom, pulled the trashcan in front of me and rest my cold, sweating head on the cool porcelain sink praying for it to be over soon.
SHELF LIFE: My Pandemic Diary: January 6, 7, 8, 2021
If you told me yesterday I’d poop the bed today I wouldn’t have believed you.
Dear (Agent): QUERY/ Shelf Life: My Pandemic Diary / MEMOIR / J. Kabay
Dear (Agent): In late 2020, a gentle, androgynous voice bloomed in my conscience. The days. Write it all down. Manuscript. If you knew my long history with this voice, you’d know why I paused. Words filled my headspace like expanding balloons, and I batted them away, defensive and confused. Manuscript? I had at least 3 …
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Chasing Lois Lowry.
In 1st grade, I got a zero on a math test. A ZERO. We were doing these things: 3 > 1 6<7 10>8 and I got every answer wrong. All 25 questions. Wrong. My teacher circled a big, red F at the top of the page and never readdressed it with me, which really, was …
Report: What Happened at a Vagina Steaming Party.
My tiny dancer suddenly gave me jazz hands.
Everywhereness.
The loudest I ever heard God was on a train. Alone in the open doorway of an empty railcar with my feet on the platform, waiting for the last train home. From a distance I must've looked sad. A thin girl with bright orange hair. Staring. Shivering. Smoking. My longtime ex-boyfriend and even-longertime ex-best-friend were five …
Beryl’s Chicken Diary. (1)
I don’t think she’s gonna make it. ---overheard. DAY ONE pain My name is Beryl. I am a lady chicken. And today is the worst day of my life. Yesterday I lived in the yard with Wanda, Missus Jenkins, and my twin sister Babs. Today I woke up in a bathtub, and I …
A Chicken Called Wanda.
Have you ever heard a chicken in distress? It sounds like a newborn pig being clawed to death. Go ahead and imagine that for a sec. Got it? That's what I woke to 12 hours ago. It sounded like this: Heeeeeelll heeeeeellll squeeeeeeeeee I felt it in my guts. So my eyes popped open. Really. A very upsetting sound. …
Jennifer Kabay 