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Sep 14, 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...


Aug 1, 20215 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...


Jul 1, 20214 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...


Jun 28, 20218 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 26, 20213 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 21, 20214 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 20, 202111 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 19, 20216 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...


May 28, 20217 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 27, 20218 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 21, 20214 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 17, 20211 min read
Love Triangle I - Julie Benesh
Your mother to your father, “She lets boys touch her, but not us.” How can you explain? At 15 making your mother jealous is farthest from...
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