I am just falling apart one piece of a time.

I'm sweating like Oprah Winfrey at a Weight Watchers way in right now.

I am dying.

Hello, I'm Shannon Beveridge and welcome to The Alphabet Club, a queer storytelling podcast

where every other week I will curate a personal

essay by someone in our community, stories about desire, heartbreak, gender, sex, friendship,

family, and becoming. After the reading, we sit with it together, we talk about what it brings up,

what it reflects back to us, and why queer stories just hit different. This week's essay is called I Swear I Love

Him and is written by drag queen writer, stand-up, singer, and actor, Pissy Miles. This essay

anchored by the beautiful simplicity of a light switch explores the saccharin sweet love

between Pissy and her husband David,

and how sometimes a love that sweet and intimate is just a thin line away from murder over something as simple as a light switch, pointing in the wrong direction.

We love this essay because it isn't grandiose, it isn't based in trauma,

it is simply a wonderfully sweet love letter and celebration of queer joy, something we really need right now.

Content warnings for this week's episode are references to bigotry and light alcohol consumption.

This week's essay will be read by the author Pissy Miles.

Stay tuned after the reading for our conversation together.

I miss you all so much and thank you for being here pissy take it away shout out to tomboy x for sponsoring this week's episode of alphabet club

and i just wanted to quickly say a thank you to them because they've been sponsoring me for so long

they sponsored my very very first episode of my first show, and they're back

again to show support. So thank you so much, Tom Boy X. And the shirt is actually from Tom Boy X. So we are

repin, baby. Thank you guys so much. There are two light switches in my main hallway, one at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom.

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