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A Week of Scandalous Anonymous Stories

By Sarah Han We’ve heard some crazy personal stories. The kind that make us laugh our asses off, our...

By Sarah Medina When I graduated from UC Berkeley in the spring of 2012, I was eager to start what...

Illustrated by Helen Tsang When I was a kid, I was sure I’d grow up to be a writer....

By Michelle Tea • Design by Jayde A. Cardinalli It can be trippy to try to remember what San Francisco first...

By Tina Hardison • Illustrated by Yina Kim During my first couple months of living in San Francisco, I didn’t...

People who do drugs every day are drug addicts, but I didn’t feel like one...

By Sara Faith Alterman Last year I was having dinner at Burma Superstar when I overheard a conversation between a...

By Tony Bravo I don’t know how it happened. One day I was the last single person left among...

Design by Juan Leguizamon By the time my decades-long chemical spree had ended, I had published a memoir about my...

By Tony Bravo, Illustrated by Jenifer Wofford “Can you come with me to the doctor?” The text was from Jacqueline,...

By Allie Pape It’s hard making friends in San Francisco. When I first moved here, I would have been...