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  1. Why I Let Him Touch My Hair - Brevity mag

    Sep 12, 2016 · A typical white boy. No match for me, yet, I started it, impressed him with what I knew white boys liked: Metallica, tits, Seinfeld. He was nice. Bored, I guess. We talked for a …

  2. Issue 53 / Fall 2016 | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

    Sep 12, 2016 · I sat beside a white boy in a dead bar. Alone, he slurped beer, watched football. Hair yellow like an unpeeled onion, no signs of sun on his skin. A typical white boy. No match …

  3. gender/sexuality | Page 4 | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary ...

    I sat beside a white boy in a dead bar. Alone, he slurped beer, watched football. Hair yellow like an unpeeled onion, no signs of sun on his skin. A typical white boy. No match for me, yet, I …

  4. Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Page 2 | Brevity: …

    I sat beside a white boy in a dead bar. Alone, he slurped beer, watched football. Hair yellow like an unpeeled onion, no signs of sun on his skin. A typical white boy. No match for me, yet, I …

  5. gender/sexuality | Page 3 | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary ...

    I sat beside a white boy in a dead bar. Alone, he slurped beer, watched football. Hair yellow like an unpeeled onion, no signs of sun on his skin. A typical white boy. No match for me, yet, I …

  6. The Things I’ve Lost - Brevity mag

    Sep 9, 2006 · Fleece hat and gloves: in the backseat of a Boston cab in 2002, before driving back to Maine. Round, purple sunglasses: in an Atlanta pool hall over drinks with Ashby, whose wife …

  7. The Heart as a Torn Muscle - Brevity mag

    Jan 8, 2015 · Overview Your heart was already full, but then you saw him and your heart beat code, not Morse but a more insistent pulse: Oh yes. That’s him. That one. Not The One (The …

  8. I Hear You Man | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

    Sep 14, 2024 · I don’t remember a time when men, young, elderly, or middle-aged, stranger, or familiar, didn’t randomly confide in me the most traumatic horrors of their reality. Is there …

  9. Letting It Be | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

    May 9, 2016 · My Papa loves to watch the news. He has a chair, angled so that he and the television can be in a line. He plugs his computer in beside him, his lamp above him, the cords …

  10. The Dresser | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

    Jan 15, 2022 · “Look what he’s done.” My grandmother—Greggie—tried to sound annoyed, but her tone came across as affectionate because Papa hadn’t actually done anything wrong. We …