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April Arcus

Stella

I only have one homeless friend, but I love her a lot. Her name’s Stella, or sometimes Stormy. When I lived on Washburn Alley, on 9th &…

4 min readMar 19, 2018

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April Arcus

The Egg and I

CW: graphic descriptions of sex, sexual trauma, drug use during sex

4 min readMar 19, 2018

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April Arcus

Inside Out

Key West was an odd moment in my father’s life — all his friends were gay men, and all our hired help. They’d all practice yoga in his…

2 min readNov 26, 2017

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April Arcus

Thanksgiving

In 2011 — the November after I came out — my then-wife Corey and I visited my grandmother for Thanksgiving.

1 min readNov 15, 2017

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April Arcus

Breakfast Gossip

The girls were gathered, gossiping around breakfast. An unbelievable beauty sat at the next table. I wondered, was she one of us? She…

2 min readNov 15, 2017

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April Arcus

Theodicy

Each seahorse and spiral in the Mandelbrot set had a mathematical existence before Mandelbrot ever rendered it, before Cardano first…

2 min readJan 14, 2017

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Theodicy

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April Arcus

Hymn of Doxology

A glimpse of her hair

1 min readJan 1, 2017

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Hymn of Doxology

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April Arcus

The Pure Land

The sign said “bookstore”…

1 min readJan 1, 2017

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The Pure Land

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April Arcus

Touch Me Where It Hurts

How do you know if you’re actually in love?

1 min readJan 1, 2017

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April Arcus

How to Stop Being Transphobic

Believe people when they tell you their gender.

2 min readDec 30, 2016

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April Arcus

April Arcus

colorless, genderless, humorless. functional programming, unicode, book typography, linguistics, molecular biology, early christianity. they/them

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