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Medical Masque
I remember when the Prozac first hit. I was in my grandparents’ kitchen doing dishes, looking out the window at the grizzled apricot trees, and in an…
Mar 25
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Megan Koester
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Long Gone Now
On the whiteboard, under the heading “Today’s Goals,” was written one thing: DNR. I leaned over the hospital bed and peered into his gaping, gasping…
Mar 18
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Megan Koester
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Bye-Bye, So Long, Suicide
I’m telling Anthony about what I’ve spent the last six hours on, clicking through fragments of archived LiveJournals on the Wayback Machine in an…
Mar 10
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Megan Koester
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This is the Dawning of the Age of Personal Branding
In last week’s newsletter, I made an allusion to a Vice article that was cut for being “too snarky.” As I was never able to place it elsewhere, I fail…
Mar 1
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Megan Koester
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February 2024
Toiling in the Content Mines
It’s not that the young are better, smarter, funnier, or have the most interesting perspectives–it’s that they are the most easily exploitable, and that…
Feb 24
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Megan Koester
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Where I’m Crawling From
It’s unsettling how easy it is to disappear. Engagement with social media is now a requisite for living—if you say nothing, you are nothing. And, honey…
Feb 17
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Megan Koester
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October 2022
You Were Destined For a Pauper’s Grave
“I don’t understand why people pay full price for shit,” she said as I dug through a box of garbage. “I get everything free, or a quarter. That’s how I…
Oct 16, 2022
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Megan Koester
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September 2022
It Plays, I Lay
There is always too much time until there is none. Days are endless as they are pointless, exercises in tedium, spent scrolling through the void and…
Sep 22, 2022
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Megan Koester
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June 2022
No Justice, No Shit
I know from experience that if someone’s assaulting you, don’t fight back — it only makes it worse. So when the cop shoved me, I went limp and let the…
Jun 27, 2022
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Megan Koester
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I Think It’s Worse
I was standing in the nosebleed seats of the Hollywood Bowl when I knew my youth was over. I don’t mean my actual youth, as that was already long gone…
Jun 21, 2022
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Megan Koester
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How to Survive
It’s hard to live and it’s only going to get harder. It’s hot outside and it’s only going to get hotter. Supermarket shelves are riddled with human…
Jun 13, 2022
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Megan Koester
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An Idiot, A Broad
I am Californian, and California is (Gavin Newsom voice) whether you like it or NOT! Mexico; as a result, I should be fluent in Spanish. I grew up…
Jun 6, 2022
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Megan Koester
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