Kiss and Tell

Jessica B. Sokol

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Chipperly, lovingly, I tried to peck a buddy’s partner on the lips, and later that night they irately texted their disapproval which showed me the epitome of Connecticut.

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Jessica B. Sokol writes scandalous creative nonfiction. She’s the author of For Better And Worse: Short Stories and Tantalizing Tales—From Coast to Coast, and her stories appear inThe Long Covid Reader (Long Hauler Publishing, 2023), Still Point Arts Quarterly, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, “I DO” Wedding Guide 2023, The Music Museum of New England, and The Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library. Her “Open Letter to Anthony Bourdain” was featured in The Valley Love Letters Project: Live on Stage at the Academy of Music and is published in WayWords Literary Journal. She’s a vegan cook living in Western Massachusetts, and was recently on José Andrés’s Longer Tables podcast, and the KVMR Disability Rap radio show and podcast. 

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