No, please tell me what to wear tell me what I wear when I choose what I wear is wrong Tell me how to speak or explain what I speak in ways others understand, because you know, if I...

I can hear my heartbeat. Its severe rhythmic booming means two things – I am morbidly out of shape, and, the silence around me is so complete, it’s one of those rare times I can genuinely listen when my heart...

In a gentle curve down the right of the road of my childhood home is a sectioned off piece of dense forest dropping off onto thick soft sand. The sea begins there, or anywhere, even here where I stand, nearly...

They stood like sentinels in a cage in the kitchen. Various sized bottles holding marriages of sweet, briny, smooth, nutty, fruity, garlic, vegetable, prawn and any other flavour imaginable. Tall and sleek, squat with a dimpled round surface, boxy but...

I did not tell her For I did not know how I once was pretty But I don’t feel that now Daddy told me that girls like me Could be cuter with a smaller nose, so you see... I changed...

I am not ashamed of my belly or my butt soft splendid mine I am not ashamed of my hair or my height I am not ashamed of my sexuality of my gender of my friends of my lovers men...