I’m A Snake St. Patrick Drove Out Of Ireland: This Time Of Year Is Hard For Me

Patrick was acting distant. He had cut his hair and always carried a heavy book with him called the Bible.

Emily Menez
Slackjaw
Published in
3 min readMar 17, 2021

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Photo by Marcus Lange on Unsplash

It feels just like yesterday I was jolted out of a peaceful 2 a.m. REM cycle and beaten with a stick by someone I considered to be my friend. I was not…

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Emily Menez
Slackjaw

I've written for The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, CBS, and others. I hail from Overland Park, Kansas, which is the coolest part of the Midwest.