The wind battered my face at the top of the mountain and I smiled. For, I could handle this sort of battering. What I was going towards was far safer than where I came from. Here, I breathed in uncertainty and fresh air. Down there, there was certainty – oh, yes…but certainty that reeked of […]
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The Walk Out
Driven by something beyond comprehension or reason, he pulls my hair and grips his fingers around my chin towards him…and says nothing. For in that nothing spews all the words that he ever said to me: Baby Slut Whore My Love Sugar Bear B*tch C*nt Sweetie Baby Shithead Stupid Sweetheart Like a very bad child. […]
Why I Quit Hollywood
There was a time when I stood in a street to get my photo taken in the hopes of attracting a major Hollywood director. The corresponding headshot was full of lip curl, seductive eyes, dark hair and a forehead mole. I layered on the makeup, tried every fad diet you could imagine and bathed my […]
I am Still Too Young For You
I wrote this piece and performed it at a Spoken Word evening when I was 20 years old in New York City after a few incidents with powerful and not-so-powerful men in the theatre industry. I was scared shitless, shaking as I recited the piece in front of some of the said men but somehow […]