ESSAY: More Rest for the Wicked

I’m thrilled to have a new personal essay published today at Black Lipstick. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed … More

Notebook Fragments: 2018-2022

Content warnings: Mental illness, suicidality, self-harm, disordered eating, addiction, death, sexual assault. Notebook Fragments: 2018-2022 (after Ocean Vuong) x Obsessively … More

Want

“What do you want?” “I want to chew on your bones // to go back to 2008 and stop her … More

(Pro-)/(Retro-)gression

1 I fill the void with three liters of cheap white wine and morph into a monster in a mini … More

Snapshots of Us

How did we get here? Well, you saw a photograph of me in a magazine and said, “I have to know … More

Wild Horses

You mix my medication into a pot of vanilla yoghurt and instruct me on how to eat. Open. Come on. … More

& party & bullshit

So we were at this house party and I was sitting in the kitchen sink drinking lukewarm vodka out of … More

Daria & Pete

I would enquire, would ask exactly how they all met, but all the members of this party are now dead. … More

Custody Conversations

Excerpt from History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone, 2021). To read more, get a copy … More

Winner of The Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2021 – Anatomy of a Disordered Personality: Skin by HLR

I’m delighted to announce that I am the winner of The Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2021! The competition is … More