The Crib Text

A few pieces of context before the story begins:

• The events take place on November 17th, 2017.

The Crib Text: Epilogue

Everyone asks, “How did you know?” “What made you decide?”

Pointing to when, exactly, I knew that I would spend the rest of my life with Iain Whiteside is like trying to point to when I knew that my name was Kathryn Elizabeth Williams. At one point I did not…

Lyin’ Comey

As it turns out, I am a pathological liar.

According to family legend, it started when I was five years old and told my parents that it was my older brother who cut my bangs with the kitchen scissors. My poor brother was utterly shocked — his tiny brain circuits fizzing and…

The Job Hunt

Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, writing in 1942, was convinced that entitled intellectuals who couldn’t get the kinds of jobs…

Mrs. California Goes to Business School, Part II.

The Soul of Notre Dame

My coworkers said: I was actually quite sad. Yeah me too. Me too. It was sad…

I didn’t get the job.

I didn’t get the job.