Dee Richards is a neurodiverse writer and intersectional feminist working in surrealist fiction, horror, and memoir. Current MFA student in Creative Nonfiction at UC Riverside.
There I was, nearly falling off of a plastic-cushioned bench seat at Souplantation, when I realized I had fallen. It wasn't the love of writing his name 100 times in my journal; it wasn't the performative love I had ever given before. When I came up
The muscles and tendons in my left shoulder complain, but the lull of the freeway mixed with birdsong helps me forget. Living beside a freeway my whole life means that this ringing in my ears never quite leaves but, without it, the ringing becomes maddening. My chaotic desk of papers,
"Hi, I'm Dee, first-year Creative Non-Fiction." I feel so aggressive pressed elbow-to-elbow trying to connect to anyone on a cramped balcony overlooking an impossibly large and beautiful backyard. "I'm (name redacted by my brain), second-year Fiction." "What's your WIP?