Ellen

The Basics

Name

Ellen

About Me

About Me

Ellen was pieced together from scuffed shoes and breadcrumbs. Her body is powered by twelve and a half rodents, working tirelessly on miniature treadmills lodged in her ribcage. Currently on her twenty-sixth nose, Ellen regrets cutting off the previous twenty-five, despite her face. To pay for her apartment (in a cumulonimbus cloud just above a paper town in Eastern West Virginia), Ellen rents out space in her temporal lobe. She also uses the fluid that seeps from her gums and kneecaps to make herbal soaps which she sells to hobos and stay-at-home mothers. She is slowly being engulfed by quicksand, and uses this experience to make motivational speeches across America. In her spare time, Ellen enjoys reading unwritten poetry and being embalmed.

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Gay, Queer

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What I Like

Favorite Books

Song of Solomon, The Handmaid’s Tail, Trout Fishing in America / The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar, The Things They Carried, The Lathe of Heaven, The Picture of Dorian Gray, American Dreams, The Clean House and Other Plays, Watchmen, A Wrinkle in Time, Persepolis, Fun House, You Remind Me of You, The Sandman, American Gods, Lord of the Flies, Twelfth Night, Ways of Seeing, Nudge, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories… etc. etc. etc.

Favorite Movies

Harold and Maude, Gummo, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, XXY, The Graduate, The Triplets of Belleville, Dancer in the Dark, Spirited Away, Inception, Synecdoche, NY, Thelma and Louise, Heathers, The Princess Bride, Hard Candy…

Favorite Sandwich

peanut butter and jelly

Favorite Quotes

“Go and love some more.” – Maude, Harold and Maude
“Power concedes nothing without a demand.” – Frederick Douglass
“Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.” – Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
“He lay on the cold floor sobbing; but really he was standing up strongly” – Richard Wright