HeyJaredAriel Gore
Ariel Gore is the LAMBDA Award-winning editor and author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction including the experimental memoirs We Were Witches and the forthcoming Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer from the Feminist Press
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“Dolly Parton Is Not a Mermaid” (opens the original)
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I tell Martine that sex makes me feel griefy sometimes.She says it must be hard for my lovers, too.That they should form a support group.Or maybe a roller derby team, Megan says.They could strap on their knee pads and circle around and around, crashing into each other on purpose.When dolphins find a school of fish, hundreds of them swim in circles until the fish are packed into a tight, silver ball. Then they take turns breaking through the middle to eat.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-i
More than the Minimum (opens the original)
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Something Useful, Something Beautiful (opens the original)
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I gave my writing students the “carrier bag theory of fiction” assignment: Write little pieces to put in your story-bag—something healing, something edible, something useful, something beautiful. Because not everything needs to move a plot forward.HealingMy lover calls me in the blue light of morning and tells me her fantasies, tells me what she wants me to do. I oblige.EdibleI feed her orange blossom goat cheese and prosciutto.Useful
Clocking Out (opens the original)
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Useful, Edible, Beautiful, Healing: What Would You Carry Home? (opens the original)
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