Wailing Women
By Rachel Davey My stepmom told me about wailing women years ago. Not some fantasy shit — real women. Women who sang and screamed their pain to the world whether the world wanted to hear it or not. Women like Tori Amos and the Indigo Girls, whose lyrics resonated with my stepmom and her college …
The Black Light
By Jessica Xing My girlfriend and I were extremely functional. “Mature.” I guess that was one way to put it: everything about our relationship was very level headed. Georgie and I got together through a quiet, two-hour-long talk on a park bench outside my apartment; in that time we made quick work to lay out …