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The Pleasures of Today - Ashley Brie Myers
Today is both ordinary and singular, for it is a Saturday in August in the midst of a pandemic, and I’m alone in Vermont. When I say...
Sep 20, 20212 min read


Teeth - Martha Taylor
My cousin Jackie and I are five years old, standing on the shore of the Patuxent River, white sand under our bare feet, fine as ground...
Sep 14, 20212 min read


Soon It Will Be Spring - Grace Kennedy
On my 5th day of taking antidepressants I find out I have COVID. Or at least, I suspect I do. It is February 4th, 2021: I have moved out...
Aug 1, 20215 min read


The Buffer in the Backseat - Tiffany R. Azzarito
Next time I think it’s a good idea to go on a trip with BOTH my parents and ONLY both my parents, remind me that it’s not. I’m an adult...
Jul 1, 20214 min read


The Frog Opera - Patricia Calderwood
It was 1972. Eighteen and newly a commuter student at Fordham University, a twenty minute walk from home, I walked the dark autumn...
Jun 28, 20218 min read


Leaving - Michelle Nicolaysen
When you leave, crossing a state and a mountain range, you think you’ll put enough distance between you and the people who raised you...
Jun 26, 20213 min read


After Googling Loneliness, People Also Ask - Lauren Backes
How do I know if I am lonely? If you keep your dorm door open because you made a quilt over break and are actually proud of it and you...
Jun 21, 20214 min read


Breathing Time - Kate Martin
“What we desire travels with us. We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.” Denise Levertov I knew it was a possibility when the...
Jun 20, 202111 min read


Pandemic Party Time! - Rebecca Jung
I live alone in quarantine, so I read, write, and binge-watch pandemic movies about people in quarantine. I watch animal videos on...
Jun 19, 20216 min read


Miscarriage McGee; Navigating Your Friend's Recently-Vacated Uterus - Bethany Cunha
I've long given myself the moniker of Miscarriage McGee. I'm that girl in the room. We've all met them along the way, they're out there....
May 28, 20217 min read


Too hard? - Jessica Crowley
Does there come a day in every woman’s life when she decides, this is the time I’m going to take my underwear off? If there is, I’ve yet...
May 27, 20218 min read


Does Someone Tell You It’s Over? - robin bidner
I returned to Plainview, Long Island, my hometown, for the funeral of my friend’s mother. I used to go to my old house often, to visit my...
May 21, 20214 min read
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