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Hey Kid, You're Gonna Die!

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger, and often makes me laugh inappropriately. I am a triracial writer: Indigenous, White and Black. I write about the gravity and levity of life, and all the places in between. Come explore with me. No maps allowed.

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  1. Issue · Jul 8, 2026

    The Half and Half-Not (opens the original)

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    The first time I heard it I didn’t know what it meant. The word rolled off her lips easily, and gained weight before falling around my shoulders. It clung to me like something sticky and foul. She wasn’t even looking at me when she said it, but I knew in her eyes that I was not a nothing. No, I was something that she despised, and it grieved her to be in the same space as me, a skinny, shy eleven year old girl. Instinctively, I flinched. I looked for dirt under my nails. I checked my Converse sn

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