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I AM NOT AFRAID OF WINTER

http://carrotquinn.wordpress.com

a twenty-something queer butch feminist rides freight trains, hitch-hikes, and talks about privilege

• Added on: Aug 15th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Carrot Quinn
• Listed in: Extreme Gay and Lesbian
• Tags: queer mental health the apocalypse environmental toxins hopping freight trains gluten-free recipes

Recent Posts

• everything

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 13:49 in love, beauty, food, reality, everything, joy, privilege, the cold, i love my friends, sometimes shit sucks, carrot quinn

  I sleep with the windows open and it’s cold now, as wintry as Portland will get. In the mornings I come up as if from the bottom of a deep hot pit and the cold air bites the tip of my nose where it sticks out from my ten hundred blankets and my sle...

• challenging the ocean to a fistfight

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 20:09 in the sea, the sky, the wind, carrot quinn, the first day of the rest of my literary life

  I am applying for a fantsy-pants two year writing fellowship, the likes of which I have never applied for, and which over a thousand people apply to each year, and this is what it feels like- it feels like buying sixty dollars worth of scratch ticket...

• t-bird’s shack

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 00:08 in pictures, beauty, portland, i love my friends, carrot quinn

  If there’s one thing I like to take pictures of, it’s the gently-lit shacks that some of my friends get to live in. Here is t-bird’s. We met today in the afternoon. T-bird bought me a tamale and a tiny persimmon in the bustle of the...

• Your eyes are like the ocean

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 16:19 in love, joy, the sea, the wind, carrot quinn

  Do they make their own light? I think they are like the sunset, backlit.  I look at them and I can see tomorrow, somehow, I can see everything that could ever be. I look at them and somewhere, a man guides a skiff up a river, the wind blows, leaves ...

• Polished! Done! So shining I can see my own face in it!

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 15:44 in carrot quinn, the first day of the rest of my literary life

  Friends and strangers! I have been working very hard here in my little wooden shack, with the rain pouring down outside, or not, and just this very moment I finally have something to show for it- a finished story! Finished as in polished, no holes an...

• to my anonymous donor, who I just googled

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 20:20 in love, gratitude, privilege, the sky, carrot quinn, good-looking strangers who give me money

  I wonder if you know, anonymous donor, what it means to me, to write these words, here in Portland, where rain lashes ceaselessly from the heavens (but I don’t mind) and then infinity splits and for a moment the yellow milk of the sun pours down, b...

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Preeti

Great read!

Posted: October 22nd, 2008 | More Reviews From preetit | Report This Comment

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