Published in Dark Ocean.

There is a highway near Salt Lake City that will take you to the edge of nowhere. The highway starts in town and then ribbons west, as straight and narrow as the consciences of the Mormons who built it.

In this article for Oprah Daily: a fake funeral, an OCD support group and a party girl's confrontation with the slow creep of loneliness.

A search for a vanished desert artifact, a very long walk on the shores of an ancient sea, and a reckoning with personal loss in a rapidly unraveling world.

Pregnancy, abandonment, and the loneliness of anger. Oh, and some effigies and vengeance goddesses.

It was the summer of Nancy Drew–the year I finished the last of Carolyn Keene’s seventy-eight mysteries at the library by my house and, enthralled, started again on the first one.