{"id":17018,"date":"2024-06-20T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=17018"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:35:24","slug":"kiss-and-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/06\/20\/kiss-and-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss and Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Kiss and Tell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jessica B. Sokol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chipperly, lovingly, I tried to peck a buddy\u2019s partner on the lips, and later that night they irately texted their disapproval&nbsp;which showed me the epitome of Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jessica B. Sokol<\/strong>&nbsp;writes scandalous creative nonfiction. She\u2019s the author of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Better-Worse-Short-Stories-Tantalizing\/dp\/1519373821\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16O6XRK9WLWRK&amp;keywords=for+better+and+worse+jessica+b+sokol&amp;qid=1689277872&amp;sprefix=for+better+and+worse+jessica+b+sokol%2Caps%2C214&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>For Better And Worse: Short Stories and Tantalizing Tales<\/em>\u2014<em>From Coast to Coast<\/em><\/a>, and her stories appear in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryladd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Long Covid Reader (Long Hauler Publishing, 2023),<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shantiarts.co\/SPAQ\/SPAQ50\/files\/sokol.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Still Point Arts Quarterly<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorothyparkersashes.com\/libido\/sexcapades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Dorothy Parker\u2019s Ashes,<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/view.publitas.com\/p222-4389\/i-do-2023\/page\/20-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>\u201cI DO\u201d Wedding Guide 2023<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmone.org\/wherever-is-your-heart-i-call-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Music Museum of New England<\/a>, and The Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library. Her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jessicabsokol.substack.com\/p\/the-written-word-is-not-dead-051522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open Letter to Anthony Bourdain<\/a>\u201d was featured in The Valley Love Letters Project: Live on Stage at the Academy of Music and is published in&nbsp;<em>WayWords Literary Journal.<\/em>&nbsp;She\u2019s a vegan cook living in Western Massachusetts, and was recently on Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Longer Tables<\/em>&nbsp;podcast, and the KVMR&nbsp;<em>Disability Rap<\/em>&nbsp;radio show and podcast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about submitting your work to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;or applying to McNeese State University\u2019s Creative Writing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss and Tell Jessica B. Sokol __________ Chipperly, lovingly, I tried to peck a buddy\u2019s partner on the lips, and later that night they irately texted their disapproval&nbsp;which showed me the epitome of Connecticut. __________ Jessica B. Sokol&nbsp;writes scandalous creative nonfiction. She\u2019s the author of&nbsp;For Better And Worse: Short Stories and Tantalizing Tales\u2014From Coast to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[75,209],"class_list":["post-17018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-sentence-stories","tag-boudin","tag-onesentencestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17063,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17018\/revisions\/17063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}