Mark Gregory Lopez is an author and copy editor for BuzzFeed. His journalistic writings have appeared in UT Law Magazine, CHAOS Magazine, The Weekly Alibi, Music OMH, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, and The Bend Magazine. A semifinalist for the 2024 Philip Levine Poetry Prize, his poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Maynard, Borderlands, Juked, Feels So Good, Eunoia Review…
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“I was 22 and sleeping with a guy that I would see in passing while going to work. He was insistent on keeping me a secret. At the time, I was willing to accept his terms due to being young and very naive, due to being sheltered with little interaction. This…

