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Burn Shit/Dance A Lot | C. Russell Price

August 10, 2016 by Rosamund

On the nights I feel most in control of my gender, I wear thick eyeliner and paint my nails and let my blue mane down. I sit in a dive bar and watch the men stare. I listen to whispered what-is-thats and don’t-they-know-this-isn’t-a-gay-bars. Sometimes, a man will put his drink near mine and look at me for an uncomfortable amount of time, like how a dog looks at food when it hits the floor, before I say, “YOOOOO—are you gonna […]

Categories: C. Russell Price, Story Club North Side

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If I Hadn’t Burnt That Lampshade…

April 24, 2015 by Rosamund

A dark theatre, mid play. Lights up on a cemetery in upstate New York. A young drag queen, Bitchina, enters studying a slip of paper. He finds the spot he’s been looking for. He speaks. “Oh, there you are. Hi, Mom. It’s Bitchi—William. Billy. I know I don’t look like myself. In fact, I think this is the worst I’ve ever looked. Or felt. Well almost. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to come back. I would’ve brought you […]

Categories: Michael A. Van Kerckhove

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God and The Ocean | Wyl Villacres

April 15, 2015 by Rosamund

So I am 19 years old and fucked up on mushrooms in my dorm room, and in the next hour I am going to call my mother to tell her that I found God. In the next few months, I am going to fail out of school. In the next few years, I am going to become the stunning display of skin and bones in front of you, but before that, I was 19 years old and fucked up on […]

Categories: Story Club North Side, Wyl Villacares

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Great Smokey, Batman! | Jeremy Schaefer

April 8, 2015 by Rosamund

As my girlfriend and I prepare for our first camping trip as a couple, I am determined to do something that has never been done before: I am going to use the skills I learned as a boy scout to impress a potential mate. At this point in our relationship, I am just as concerned with impressing Ann, as I am unclear about what traits are impressive. I lead her through REI with all the confidence of an Eagle Scout […]

Categories: Fillet of Solo, Jeremy Schaefer

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The Black Death | Robert Norris

April 1, 2015 by Rosamund

Ebola? I spit on your Ebola. Let me tell you about the plague that came to Europe 668 years ago. It is known to history as the Black Death, and we think it killed about 200 million people worldwide. In 1966 the Rand Corporation did a study for the U.S. Government. They were asked to look at natural disasters in history and find one that came closest to thermonuclear war. The Black Death is what they picked. Now, the thing […]

Categories: Rob Norris, Story Club North Side

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A History of Boys and the Myth of the Makeout Closet | Ali Kelley

March 23, 2015 by Rosamund

There’s this scene in the 1995 film “Now and Then” where a rival boy group, The Wormers, go skinny-dipping. The leader of The Wormers is Scotty Wormer, played by a then 12-year-old Devon Sawa. At one point in the scene you can clearly see Sawa’s bare ass as he runs away from the camera and into a lake. This scene was rewound, paused and squealed over at every sleepover I attended in the late ‘90s. The same year “Now and […]

Categories: Ali Kelley, Story Club North Side

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The Weigh- In | Debbi Welch

March 17, 2015 by Rosamund

Control is very important in scientific experiments. But for me, the most nonscientific person I know, there is one instance where control is a necessity, where minimizing as many variables as possible is the number one task at hand. I speak of the weigh-in, the moment when you step on a scale and wait for a number to appear. It’s like waiting for a slot machine to complete its rolls so you can see what matches up – your jeans will […]

Categories: Debbi Welch, Story Club North Side

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Siriously? | Jill Howe

March 4, 2015 by Rosamund

Technology is so great, helping me stay connected, helping me build my business, helping me… find dudes to date. A match.com date is like spinning a giant wheel of fate and then click click click wink. I start talking to a downtown consultant who loves to brew beer. His photo shows that he is athletic with kind eyes and that he has his shirt on (please men, stop with the selfies in the bathroom). His emails do not mention his […]

Categories: Jill Howe, Story Club North Side

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Life On A Submarine | Nate Lopez

February 25, 2015 by Rosamund

I was a Reactor Operator onboard the USS Los Angeles from 2001 to 2005. That means that I spent a majority of my time watching numbers on a panel in a tiny room hundreds of feet underwater. Since I got out, I’ve found that every time I bring up the boat (subs are referred to as boats, surface ships are ships), I’m asked the same general questions over and over. What’s life like on a Sub? Did your captain have […]

Categories: Nate Lopez, Story Club Boston

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