Please Don't Hate Me.

Most of my jokes are only alive when you’re alone.

It's intentional.

Potentially Engaging Stories

Potential Personal Narratives

Explore the World of Mariel Hixenbaugh

Maybe don’t. Not yet.
But if you’re asking—

I write memoir I shouldn’t.
I lose to short fiction.

And I’m writing a book that might be too much.
Doing it anyway. We’ll see.

Oh, and I love myself a good em dash.

Not much so far.

If you pay attention.

From characters, not me.

Fictional experiences.

Straight up fictional experiences.

I'm kind of a dick.

But I'm kind of funny.

"You don't need to try hard when you know you're the problem."

-EVE LAURENT

"She had the posture of something irreplaceable, and the courtesy not to pretend otherwise."

-SERET LANNOVAR

"She's not calm. She's locked."

-ALARIC HALLOW

"Don't play chicken with someone whose eyebrows have a higher kill count than you."

-TAVIO MARSTEN

"He didn't trust her. Not because she lied. Because she didn't need to."

-KAI KROSTLIK

"Eve Laurent wasn't a puzzle to figure out. She was a mess with sharp edges, and trying to pick her up just meant you were gonna bleed for it."

-GREGOR HARREN

"She didn't want to be here. She wasn't meant for inside voices and history that felt like blood."

-EIRA WYNNE

"Half the people in the room were shaped like weapons. Some were just decorative."

-CORIN VALEN

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— Silence