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I Can Only Give You Everything

An inter-linked story collection chronicling the tragicomic coming of age of a woman living on the border lands of American culture. I will be featuring excerpts from my book, short essays and films I've made.

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Please Don't Look Away: Punk Hostage Press Co-Founder Speaks up About Rape Culture

An interview with A.Razor about sexual violence and direct action within the early LA punk scene.

Please Don't Look Away: A Rock n Roll Rape

The tragic story of one of the fairy godmothers of the punk scene. What Jackie Fuchs' rape says about patriarchy in rock 'n' roll and why silence and denial are destroying good sex for everyone.

City of Drugstore Roses

Portland, Oregon, a city lost in time and the romanticism of leaving and returning after a long goodbye.

Rock N Roll Is Dead

Happy 4th of July, Rock n Roll is Dead.

I'll Be Your "Push a Button Any Time," Lover

An ode to anyone who has ever fallen in love with someone they shouldn't have.

Intro to I Can Only Give You Everything

How a headbanger, a I-35 masturbator and a former prom queen led me to healing from PTSD and writing my Auto-Fiction Punk Rock Addiction Recovery Memoir

The Second Coming of Borderland Delia: Part II of II

How Borderland Delia made her first movie with no actors, no money and a stolen video camera.

The Second Coming of Borderland Delia-Ann: Part I of II

I'm going to be the next John Water's. I've got a camera, half a bottle of Ritalin and some ambition.

Death of a Screenwriter

I thought I moved to Austin, Texas to become a big time director, instead I hit bottom in alcohol/sex addiction and wrote a fucked up memoir.

Please Don't Look Away

The rock n roll man with the candy is my daddy. An essay about family secrets, the shadow side of the punk scene and life after sex addiction/trauma.

Punk Rock Girl

I'll be a punk rock girl until I die.

I Wanna Be Inside Of All That

A love poem, taken from the vault of my Frankenstein heart.

Don't Fear the Reaper

An exploration into the hidden meaning behind the Snake, the Tree of Good and Evil, and Adam and Eve.

The UPS Worker at the Gates of Death

A mini-story about how heartbreak, drug overdose and a angel disguised as a funeral worker can turn a bus ride into a religious experience.

The Biggest Sex Organ is Communication

A personal essay about how I was able to restore my sex life after addiction.

The Path of the Accidental Mystic

"Science can cure sickness, but what can cure my soul?"

The Last Time

In the hotel room of a dead rock star Border Land Delia makes love for the last time. A short story that explores the difference between sex as devotion vs sex as loveless compulsion.

An Apocalyptic Saint In Training

An essay on the holy path of drug addiction and why I think Jesus' Son is one of the best books ever written. Plus never before published commentary on the creation of Jesus' Son.

The Circle

"At Beer Land, swinging and bobbing in that circle of smiling, shouting bodies, I thought this time it would be different. That all along it was the drugs and alcohol that had fucked up the scene. "

8 Years Ago I Met the Two-Faced God of Death and Time

8 years ago I met the double faced God of time and began a journey through the labyrinth of my own tortured mind to find myself lying under twenty-years of addictions and delusions.