debut collection of stories & poems by me
published by maison kasini, 2012

anxiety, email relationships, owl people, awkwardness, facebook, humiliations, shortcomings, groundhogs, terrible personal decisions, videogames, coping, girly arms, cat seizures, etc

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thoughtcatalog has published an excerpt from it here

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I AM MY OWN BETRAYAL
TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. vaster emptiness achieved (read here)

2. I am on mdma let me give you life advice (read here)

3. when I was seven at summer camp I awoke in the middle of the night and shat on the beach by the moonlight

4. banhood

5. I don't know what a poem is but it's not preventing me from writing poems (read here)

6. poems are for no one, very long poems are for themselves

7. and how they all fell to and speedily devoured the muskallonge that had eaten
the carp

8. I have girly arms and I mean it (read here)

9. I hate myself

10. my phone remembers all your excuses

11. on my heart there is a button I have pushed

12. I am someone's dream husband (read here)

13. severely handicapped samosa

14. a synonym for 'love' is the word 'escape.'

15. karpman drama triangle

* book cover by celia spenard-ko

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'one of our favorite writers,'
papirmasse

'[perfect rating]'
I am alt lit

'a master of the tragicomic one-liner,'
maisonneuve magazine

‘a vice grip command of language, I Am My Own Betrayal is the future now,’
jmww

‘an incredibly unique bounty of writing,’
broken pencil

‘a collection on willful alienation that reads with warmth & humor,’
the millions

'morissette’s characters are weird, unsexy, and desperate to both hide themselves and be seen,’
trop magazine

'a vibrant collection that simmer with a singular sense of askew humor,'
nightlife.ca

‘astutely comments on everything from beer cans to montreal with candor,’
the concordian

long review here, short reviews here and here

broken pencil review here

the millions blogged about it here

dennis cooper blogged about it here

reading notes here (by stacey teague) and here (by natalie chin)

blog coverage here, here and here

goodreads page here

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