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Telling Someone Else’s Tale
I was at a special edition of The Stoop last week, and something about the the way one of the readers was introduced stuck with me. The always-awesome Lily Be presented Erica Clark by saying Erica’s...
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Sounds or Songs
My roommates and I were waiting for the Purple Line at Howard. I don’t remember why we were going to Evanston; they never wanted to go to the movies as much as I did. We were making that weird,...
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Being Thankful for Stories and (Open) Books
November’s theme is Body Hair, and in the spirit of Thanksgiving we’re excited to be giving back – not body hair (ew, please don’t do that) but to Open Books, a group we think is pretty great. Here’s...
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Hungry Brain
Sometimes when you love a place it creeps up on you. You don’t fall hard and fast right away, and it’s definitely not love at first sight – it was never that pretty. It’s a gradual thing that builds up...
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All You Can Eat
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. In this season of excess, I’d like to talk about an area of excess very close to my heart: The buffet. Buffets and I go way back. When I was a kid, “We’re going to...
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Mildly Eventful Beginnings
Top Five Kinda Alright New Year’s Eve’s: 1999: Y2K! Even as a teenager the threat never seemed too real. I babysit a 10-year-old, feeling like we’re too close in age for this business and she could...
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Red Line Rubdown
It was light jacket weather when that guy jerked off in front of me on the Red Line. Kind of chilly but not quite fall. I was heading downtown from Edgewater. It was late afternoon. I was 18. I...
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The Dress
This weekend, a friend of a friend posted a dress on Twitter and I fell in love. Parrots and palm trees on smooth white polyester. Size 8. H&M. Shift cut. Dreamy. It made me think of bare arms and...
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Green Ghost Golden Hour
There are specific places that make me step back for a minute. It’s more than location. It can be a time, a temperature, a smell – those sensory details that give physical places weight and context....
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Mother’s Day Weekend Guest Post
We’d like to welcome guest writer and former reader Tori Szekeres for today’s topical post. Thanks, Tori! More about her at the end. -Rose My mother is really open about sex. It was never to the point...
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Comics and More from the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo
Here at Miss Spoken we like to highlight stories in all their glorious shapes and sizes, and one of my favorite forms is the pictorial and sequential: I love comic books and have since I was a kid....
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Top Five Worst Movie Theater Experiences
I was going to write about hometown and sense of place but here we are. Please feel free to share your own bad, worst, or weird experiences seeing movies in the theater. Inspired by friend and...
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The Dreaded Question of Hometown
“Where are you from?” I used to hate that question. My answer was always bumbling and awkward, some variation on the following: “Um, I was born in San Francisco but I went to junior high and high...
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Stop Selling the Suburbs
I probably want kids someday. I don’t want or plan to move to the suburbs. I don’t see these plans as mutually exclusive, but the older I get the more I have the following conversation: Co-worker/party...
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Study Environment
I couldn’t decide if my first college roommate was Mexican or Middle Eastern, and I needed to figure it out quick because she was standing in front of me, a slim, black-clad figure with 1-inch buttons...
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