Julie Marie Wade

The pain arrives, acute & intermittent. The pain is like nothing I have ever felt before. (Me, adrift, without analogy.) The pain, which the internet describes as epigastric, is something I have certainly tried to ignore. And while the pain …

Yep, I’m gay. Understated, like the star who said it, but still radical to me at seventeen, standing in line at Safeway with my mother. And wasn’t that just like me to be standing in line at a place called …