Part Four of the Dinner Party Special Edition Outtakes & Excerpts Series. Dear readers, may I present to you, a rather incomplete, but no less impressive list of various things that happened when I finally decided to stop hating myself: Relatives started asking if I got taller because I wasn’t slouching in an attempt to will … Continue reading On Love, Or How I Turned My Decade-Long Mental Health Journey into a Listicle
On Speed
Part Three of the Dinner Party Special Edition Outtakes & Excerpts Series. I once worked in a restaurant where the customer had to be greeted within seconds of approaching the bar—or else our manager would rush over and drop a menu, smiling almost aggressively as if to make up for my supposed negligence of their … Continue reading On Speed
SGV
Part Two of the Dinner Party Special Edition Outtakes & Excerpts Series. I’m back in the San Gabriel Valley to have dinner with a good friend. Ivy—she’s just moved back from two years teaching English in Korea, and she’s living temporarily in our hometown of Arcadia while contemplating her next move. I live only about … Continue reading SGV
Enjoying the In-Between
Part One of the Dinner Party Special Edition Outtakes & Excerpts Series. I sat with my back against a hundred-year-old grave marker, eighteen years old, the promise of liberty as a soon-to-be-college-student pumping adrenaline through my veins. Michael kept close. He knew the graveyard creeped me out a little. It was February and a few … Continue reading Enjoying the In-Between
A Dinner Party You Can Hold in Your Hand
UPDATE: We pulled the trigger on the second print run! Copies are still available and can be ordered here. Thank you so much for all the support! You may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet on the Dinner Party front as of late. I promise there's a good reason for the online … Continue reading A Dinner Party You Can Hold in Your Hand
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