Archive - The Consolations

Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive

Enumerating terminologies for BPD; exploring modifications to burial arrangements.

Nov 5, 2022 •

July 2022

Not a crisis of an interrogation nor a self-chastisement. I am just wondering. Mostly about tenderness, mostly about courage.

Jul 1, 2022 •

June 2021

The Weight of Untouch

About yearning. Or: Of long nights, and inconveniently.

Jun 21, 2021 •

May 2021

A Small Private Ingot of Happiness

On nightmares and dreamscapes, white garland lilies, and a growing stack of books that have nothing to do with me, not really.

May 17, 2021 •

February 2021

Scratch and Murmur

On drawing the neighbors' roses, the haunting of two fathers, and keeping my pencils sharp.

Feb 4, 2021 •

January 2021

A Formula for the Lonely

On better days and shorter evenings, it’s all logistics: When stasis has been status quo, loneliness simply concerns motion and placement.

Jan 26, 2021 •

The Same Monotonous Remarks

And with the usual side-stepping and speaking-in-code. Here I am, Substack Sasha. (The alliteration appeals, as it tends to.)

Jan 24, 2021 •

May 2018

A More Radical Sadness

For all its lack of squeamishness, for all its edged fun-making, for all its profaneness—The Pisces is a very kind book.

May 20, 2018 •

May 2015

Regarding Longing

Consider the reader despairing enough, desperate enough, to plunder countless pages to look for a sentence to describe herself.

May 5, 2015 •

January 2015

A Dispatch from an Old Dispatch

Once, I overlooked the edge of the world.

Jan 7, 2015 •

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