Writing Mesoamerican goddess visitations as a sort of nod to the Greek chorus. Oh, this is fun.

I am not waiting to be a real writer. I already am. I'm merely growing as a person as I risk being seen.

Hollywood.

This is both a terrible and an incredible time to be a thinking person.

When I'm writing, I always enter through some hidden side door of emotion and never the structural front gate. It makes brainstorming to damn fun.

Too much emotion is horror to me. So yes I write gothic romance.

I feel like the youths would love Cake these days. They're so vibey. (I've been on a Cake kick.)

I'm working on my Spanish working retail and I am so proud of myself. "Entiendo mucho pero no hablo bien," indeed.

She believed in love, which was embarrassing. She believed in beauty, which was worse. She kept doing it anyway.

The new trailer for Frankenstein has me REELING. Del Torro is such a visionary.

when a new student unexpectedly takes first chair in band, 17-year-old trumpet player Julissa teams up with her childhood rival Logan to sabotage him for their chairs back 💛rivals to lovers 🎺fake dating 💛revenge scheme 🎺complex family+friends #JoyPit #YA #R

I....

A father screams for his child inside of a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

Last night an elderly man thanked me for speaking Spanish to him (clumsily), told me it made him feel like dancing a little cumbia, and then proceeded to do a dance in his cowboy boots and hat. These are the folks they're deporting so forgive my absolutely justified fury.

The silent crowd with the squeaking has me CRYING

My flash fiction piece made the shortlist for the butterfly anthology! 😭

Okay yeahhhhhh I ain't even lurking around here anymore. Bye for fucking ever. Jesus Christ.