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An invitation
It’s the winter solstice and the sky seemed to waver here at 3:55, just for a moment.
Dec 22, 2025
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Alissa Mears
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Mother Christmas
What fun it was to perform this for Write Up’s Christmas Edition on Saturday.
Dec 15, 2025
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Alissa Mears
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September 2025
Can pockets shift the hero narrative?
Packet of tissues, broken sunglasses, Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, chapstick, reading light, student papers, roll of mints, phone, apple gone bad…
Sep 5, 2025
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Alissa Mears
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July 2025
the boys can be alright
When I was at religious camp, the summer I was desperate to get french-kissed and convinced my abs were my best asset, we lost two boys on a mountain.
Jul 30, 2025
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Alissa Mears
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April 2025
the girls' bathroom
“It’s the only safe space in a surveillance state,” one of my students asserts in a conversation that has left the pages of The Handmaid’s Tale and…
Apr 10, 2025
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Alissa Mears
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October 2024
House of Hormones
An adolescent boy and a perimenopausal woman make strange housemates.
Oct 30, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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September 2024
On cellos and their possibilities
Early in the summer, a friend arrived on my doorstep with a ¾ size cello on her back.
Sep 6, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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June 2024
When I fantasize about my husband’s mistress
She is desperate for him.
Jun 11, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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May 2024
Deromancing the Beast
the false narrative we love in love
May 14, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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April 2024
Please manspread on my page
has anyone noticed men don’t really write about their bodies?
Apr 25, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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March 2024
And Yet
what was, what is, and what might be
Mar 27, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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Medusa's Curse or Cure?
middle age, friendship, and body insecurity
Mar 5, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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