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Because if the end is bitter, why not say fuck all and get it over with?

In the eyes of the law, I am a grown-up. I can vote, drink copious amounts of alcohol, and star in a pornographic feature if I so choose. I have a job, a budget, a car, a dog, a boyfriend, and number of suit jackets with pants to match. I also have a crush onContinue reading “My name is Natalia,”

A year ago today, my cousin, Yaroslava Tarasovna Mel’nik, was killed in a car crash outside of Kiev. I called her parents yesterday. My fingers remember the number in that peculiar way that memory often associates itself with physical stimuli. I caught myself expecting her to pick up the phone. I remembered a summer dayContinue reading “Anniversary”

Even after the gut-wrenching S & M Jesus, “‘Sugartits,” the insistence that Jews are responsible for every bad thing in the universe starting with the pimple on my chin, and a wife turned into a “rock” and a baby-machine, I still find myself having the occasional indecent thought about Mel Gibson. Eat that, crazy (azure-eyedContinue reading “I am a Fatalist”

The passion here is writing, of course, and the topic of the evening is writing groups. Or, more specifically Mythical Writing Groups That Don’t Actually Suck. This post on Miss Snark brought back some unpleasant memories, you see. When I was a delicious little bebe, I kept trying to join a writing group. The firstContinue reading “The Passion of the Natalia”