Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it’s the uttering of something,…

She said nothing in her stop-being-silly-I’m-not-going-to-encourage-you way. Just ignore him and…

It had only been three days ago, but it seemed like ages. It’s weird how slowly time passes when…

I was thinking about these notions of speech and thought, thinking how difficult it would be for…

I only feel like myself when I am alone. Interacting with other people does not come naturally to…

“I know this is going to make you think I’m just being deliberately belligerent, but I really hate…

My sitting alone bothered her; it’s like how you resent those people standing up on the subway…

This is something I really hate. Really, really hate — when people react to your being alone as…

On Entertainment Night! we had a choice of going to a comedy club or a dinner theater. I decided…

I remember at one point (genuinely) wondering if I was, perhaps, genetically altered in some way,…