Author Archives: Theodora Goss

There is a scene I have always liked in movies. It is when a priest administers absolution. He makes a particular gesture that means “I absolve you of your guilt, your sin, your transgression. You are forgiven. Go and do … Continue reading →

I was thinking about what is hardest to write, and I ranked the various things I write from easiest to hardest: essays, stories, poems. In terms of word count, poems are definitely the hardest and most time-consuming. Yesterday, I spent … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, there were stores. From my apartment in Boston, I could walk to two grocery stores. Granted, they were a Whole Foods and a Trader Joe’s, so it felt like living in a posher, more expensive area … Continue reading →

In the last few months, I’ve written three stories. Two were stories I was asked to write. One is a retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” from the ogress’s perspective. (You don’t remember an ogress in “Sleeping Beauty”? Read the Charles Perrault … Continue reading →

I think life is a process of collecting scars. Mine are inconsequential, all things considered. The oldest ones are the marks from immunizations: smallpox on one arm, tuberculosis on the other. If you were born in the United States, you … Continue reading →

I was sent home from the hospital with three bottles of pills: oxycodone, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen. They were white pills in orange plastic bottles, very much hospitals pills: uncoated, difficult to swallow. I only took a few of them. I … Continue reading →

My thyroid and I got along very well for a long time. We had a good relationship — I lived my life, and it provided me with the hormones I needed. There was that incident about twenty years ago, when … Continue reading →