I wrote this series of essays in the 6 months either side of my 21st birthday trying to capture where I was in my life. There are nuggets of truth in all of them, but there is also some extreme hyperbole. Now 23 years later I have decided to publish it, as my life has gone in very different directions from where I was at that point, and I feel that it is important to honour the dreams and wishes that I had back then, and to give the confused and sad young man who wrote it a hug and the ass...

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.'The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life.Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. Fleabag premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for t...

—PEPPER—My boss’s son is less than thrilled with the workout I'm giving the smoke detector. But if Mateo Sanchez wasn’t willing to lease me the other side of his duplex, I'd be living in a cardboard box.The latest trouble to root me out of hiding in this small-town paradise? Finding a date to my sister’s destination wedding—to my ex.I knew lying that my hot landlord was my boyfriend would bite me in the you-know-where, but sometimes a girl gets tire...

This is NOT your average joke book. This collection is proof positive that offensive, disgusting, and obscene taste, and humor, are intimate partners which amuse and delight us against our better judgment and morals, because whether we care to admit it or not, the funniest things in life are the very things which make us feel guilty for laughing. If that's the case be prepared to laugh until you cry.....or vomit. Whichever comes first. Unlike most so called dirty joke books out there where...

Words to Read While Awaiting the Apocalypse

As a child my favourite play time was to imagine. My imagination took me places no one else knew about, places that were fairy tales and places I actually created. Unless I was just imaging this, but were always places of fun. As a woman at 45 I still thrive on my imagination to work the same way. As a writer I try and share with my reader what it is I have to offer, not what I have to sell. Unnecessarypoetry I hope touches your imagination in a way maybe it has not been before. After all,...

So, you want a bit of Gangnam Style do you? You've heard that it's what all the cool kids have and you want a bit of it? It's recently come to your attention that there's this horse dance as well, yes? Right, this is the book for you. Within these (digital) pages are ten amazing tips which will help you get that all-important Gangnam Style. You too can be like PSY! Find out what Gangnam Style is, how to display it in public, and of course what to do once you've got it. Don't take it too se...

This collection of poems is about today, yesterday and tomorrow. They're about an unrelenting sun, and a moon that shows up just in time each and every night to ease our stresses. They're about shadows you never think too much about and past loves that still know how to make you remember a moment of happiness, even when you don't want to.

"Hey," Rick says, "how about us going to the Gay Pride Festival the following Saturday?""What? You mean you're actually going to be free to do something like that on a weekend?""Yeah, darlin', it just so happens that I am. No murals to do, no classes, and I'm not on shift at the Rescue Squad.""Wow, I can't believe it! But I thought all that was in June.""The parades usually are, but Asheville has a Gay Festival in the Fall." He shrugs. "I saw it the other night ...

Perhaps the greatest book of poetry ever written. Matthew James is a sheer genius and a cunning linguist. He paints words onto a page the way da Vinci did onto ceilings, or was that Michelangelo? Either way, he’s impressive. The emotionality of this master work explodes from the pages and hits you straight in the face with a walloping force. This book will mesmerize and provocatize. Nothing is taboo to Matthew James. He regularly breaks boundaries with his insights on subjects like sex, li...

[sic] thus written, error mine. Sic to incite to attack, especially as a command to a dog: Sic em! Siccingpoetry on you. Thats sick, as in, awesome. Or ill and sickly. Either way, the (gendered, sexualized) body is implicated. [sic] re-writes a feminist lyric within the long shadow cast by neo-liberalism upon the city and its denizens, mis-remembers the lines and re-inscribes the labour and commerce and sexual negotiations that take place there.

*Author wrote book in 2016-2017 when she was living in New Jersey and traveling to Philly for grindr hookups. She says, “I was bored, broke and lonely, and then I was in the hospital for a while, and I wanted to talk to my friends. I thought about how hard it is in certain arrangements of sexual and gender life to talk about sex and gender honestly with the people you’re fucking….Writing a series of letters in persona solved a number of problems at once: I could talk about myself without f...