I have a piece in the New York Times as part of a celebration of the tenth anniversary of gay marriage. This piece appears under my given name, Marina. Happy Pride!!!
Jewels of Elul
I have been invited by Craig Taubman to write a Jewel of Elul for 2024. Elul is the month before the Jewish Holy Days—a time of growth and discovery—and one short Jewel of Elul is published online for each of the 29 days of Elul. The year’s question is If Not Now, When? Thank you so much to Craig for this lovely invitation and for his many years of work with the Pico Union Project. Thank you also to my bonus son Aaron Greenberg for mentioning me to Craig. Here is my Jewel of Elul.
A Drop in the Ocean: Raising the Bodies on Lesvos Island
My braided essay about working with refugees in Greece and the death of my oldest and dearest friend appears on eunoia.com. Thank you to Ian Chung for hosting this essay.
Journey to Planet Write: Late to the Game (2016)
This is my contribution to Journey to Planet Write, a project created by Gay Degani at Words in Place. These are stories of writers’ journeys to their current writing career. Check them out!
Passing by Nina Rota (Eunoia Review)
This piece was originally published in Witness Magazine. I’m happy to say that this essay has now been published online at Eunoia Review. Thank you to Ian Chung. I write about gender issues so other people can handle these things better than I have, and if it’s not online who’s gonna find it :O)?
While investigating the gender transition of LA Times Sportswriter Mike Penner/Christine Daniels, I found myself in the middle of my own gender identity crisis. A second transition lead me to the deeper nature of all life transitions, and an understanding of the impossible position Christine found herself in.
Smiling Jenny
My short story Smiling Jenny has been published in this month’s Diverse Voices Quarterly. (This is a PDF of the DVQ , search for “Smiling Jenny” to read my story.)
Dan has given up on human girlfriends because they all leave him—probably because he insists on having sex with other women in front of them. As our story begins, Dan is unpacking his newest silicone doll and preparing to have sex with her in front of his current synthetic live-in girlfriend, Smiling Jenny. She is none too pleased about this and not at all shy about expressing her feelings
The Shadow Temple
Hey Everyone, My essay The Shadow Temple has been published in the Sex Issue of Red Fez.
The Shadow Temple describes an explicit inner sexual fantasy in which a female narrator is an older man seducing a much younger man. We then follow the narrator’s experience of acting out the fantasy in real life with someone she meets at a gathering.
Sins of the Celebrity Father
My essay, Sins of the Celebrity Father, has been published in Inside Tennis.
A tennis blogger writes about Roscoe Tanner as he slides deeper into legal trouble over bounced checks and unpaid child support only to see her blog become a meeting ground for Roscoe’s fans, friends, and finally, his daughters. The maturity and eloquence of Roscoe’s daughters lead the blogger to rethink her relationship with her own absentee celebrity father.
