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Category Archives: Writing

WRITE CLUB: FORTIFY

Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for FORTIFY.

March 25, 2017 · Leave a comment

Gone in 60 Seconds (2017).

Plays for the Chicago OMPF.

February 22, 2017 · Leave a comment

News & Guts & Gumption.

A yearning to wander into a newsman’s office.

January 27, 2017 · Leave a comment

Alternately.

This piece was performed on January 7, 2017 at The Green Mill for The Paper Machete. This was also an afternoon that I was fortunate enough to share a bill with Janeane Garofalo.

January 8, 2017 · Leave a comment

A circle, unbroken.

Who we are, in the wake of one who would have us not be.

January 2, 2017 · Leave a comment

Points of contention.

In case you’re wondering how I feel about it.

December 12, 2016 · 1 Comment

Unwanted Earworms.

How that conversation could otherwise go.

August 22, 2016 · Leave a comment

WRITE CLUB: HIT

Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for “HIT.”

July 25, 2016 · Leave a comment

Belaboring the narrative.

The mythology has two venomous heads.

July 7, 2016 · Leave a comment

Art History.

I pick up on a storytelling trick.

May 25, 2016 · Leave a comment