11.09.2021 Fair warning, this entire thing is going to be about me. I need to have a conversation with myself and unfortunately, I can’t do it unless I know other people are watching. It’s weird, don’t get me wrong. …

“Well, my great grandmother’s still alive, and you can see how that would be an issue.” I looked at him and jotted the words great grandmother in my notebook. He stared at his hands. “She wants grandchildren to see me get married, so, you know, if that’s okay with you…

How am I? I’m fine. You’re not asking out of obligation, are you? It’s not that I think that you are, it’s just that, you know, I’ve asked you for support a countless number of times and you hardly ever ask me for the same so — and I know…

Hello. I am not a successful person. In fact, you would be correct in calling me an “angry teenager” or a “therapist’s gold mine”. Throughout my life, while eating sandwiches at my desk and looking at the small amount I have left in my savings account and realizing that it…

Well, therapy worked so now I’m a bad writer. To be honest, I always knew that it was a bad idea. I’ve always had the quiet suspicion that happy people, at the end of the day, have nothing interesting to say. “What a lovely Bordeaux! What a day at the…

Fine, here’s your essay on Emily Dickinson. She was a good poet. She was born sometime in the 1800s, or maybe the 1900s. I’m not sure. I’ve looked up several articles about her on my own free will, and not because you, Mr. …

“I don’t think it’s written very well.” “What do you mean?” Brian Becker asked. His eyes narrowed as he stared down the twenty-something intern sitting across from him. This intern, Mark or Andrew or Steven, one of the three, was as naive as they came. …

I’m sorry, this is my first exorcism. Could I use your bathroom? No you’re right, I’ll go afterwards. Thank you for restraining him to the bed. I’ll just need a second to get ready. What? Did I bring a…what? I’m sorry, he’s being very loud. Oh, I do have a…