my writing

• fiction
• Mangoes
• Chapter 1 (3,396 words)
• Chapter 2 (3,469 words)
• Chapter 3 (1,535 words)
• Chapter 4 (2,471 words)
• Chapter 5 (1,483 words)
• Chapter 6 (1,819 words)
• Chapter 7 (1,537 words)
• Chapter 8 (1,967 words)
• Chapter 9 (2,206 words)

Mangoes is my first serious attempt at writing a novel. It follows Bee, a trans mathematician who has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and finds herfelf obsessed with a gameshow. it is in part autobiographical. no character in this story is a one-to-one recreation of people in my real life. each one is a mixture of different people, and many people in my life do not show up in this story at all. please don't take it personally. i'm updating this slowly and having a lot of fun with it. maybe someday i'll send it to an editor and look to get it published. maybe not.

• essays
• No Trans Fats: Body Liminality and the Theft of Fat and Trans Joy (1,710 words)

this was the first personal essay I've ever written and I had a lot of fun doing it. really easy to get into a flow state with this sort of thing, especially if the topics have been rattling around in your brain for a long time.

• poetry
• The Chick

this is a poem i wrote the day i realized i was trans. i haven't written much poetry but this was a great way to get my feelings out. i thought the symbolism was subtle, but a friend immediately clocked what it was about.