• CHILLA RANCH
    The last mile was all dust and gold. The sedan dropped into second without anyone asking it to—the transmission knew this road the way a dog knows the path to the barn. Gravel popped under the tires like small bones deciding to be kind. On the right, a pond held the whole sky and refused to blink. On the left, black cattle stood in their own shadows and watched the car the way furniture...
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  • Is Sex a Luxury?
    Prologue: The Question I did expect to spend a Tuesday afternoon asking myself whether the most basic biological drive in the human animal—the one responsible for every single person reading this sentence being alive—qualifies as a luxury. A luxury is supposed to be a private jet. A handbag made from the skin of an animal that went extinct last Tuesday. A bottle of water that...
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  • Red Flags, Green Flags, and Dating Survival Stories
    I. Introduction: Welcome to the Gray Zone Let's be honest with each other right now. Dating in the 2020s is absolutely exhausting. Not the kind of exhausting where you need a nap. The kind where you want to throw your phone into a river, delete every app, and move to a cabin in the woods with only a dog for company. Between the dopamine slot machine of dating apps, the normalization of...
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  • The Cult of the Dirtbag: Why Women Worship the Unworthy
    I. Introduction: The Spectacle of Self-Destruction There he is. The Dirtbag. You can spot him a mile away—in a college quad, at a nightclub, in a VIP section, or on a yacht. He is immaculately groomed, his jawline sharpened by a surgeon's knife, his physique sculpted by hours in the gym and the careful application of performance-enhancing substances. His clothing is expensive but...
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