The Best Sex I Ever Ate
It was the early 80s and I was living in an apartment in a trendy Chicago neighborhood called Rogers Park. Popular with singles and families…
Author: Sherry McGuinn
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Scraps
I stand at the sink licking blueberry muffin batter off my fingers I gaze out at our majestic Autumn Blaze maple tree in our back…
Dirty
I look around the dark bar, expectant. My body tingles in anticipation of what’s to come. Or, what I hope will come. Early on I…
Rotten Fruit
I look up at the fruit, hanging swollen and heavy, from the tree branch, like my breasts after you suckled them. Reaching for one, I…
Anatomy of an Extraction
Doesn’t it suck how your body can turn on you in the blink of an eye? Much like people. I’ve always taken scrupulous care of…
Sober Curious, or Scurrilous?
My recent semi-public fuck-up has me reassessing my “relationship” with alcohol. And not for the first time. I suppose that should tell me something. And…
Excision
One little cut…for that time I got ugly-drunk and jealous and ruined your birthday party. Two little cuts…for my concerted inability to be soft, when…
My Love/Hate Relationship With Anthony Bourdain
Image by Drew de F Fawkes/Flickr.Com If only he’d given a shit about the animals he routinely and often gleefully, abused. A couple of weeks…
Turning Dad On
Image by author. For anyone here who thought they were about to read a stomach-turning confession, I’m sorry to disappoint. Of course, I’m being cheeky…
