Essays
​

A Bet She Couldn't Resist
​ Modern Love

Listen to Mark read an excerpt and discuss
his essay on the Modern Love Podcast​
Also available on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon Music

​​​​Holding Me Still
​a Modern Love Tiny Love Story
What Seeing a Photo Of An Old Fling in a
​Penis Museum Made Me Realize About My Marriage*
​*Also covered by MTV News Helsinki

​​My Boyfriend Took Me To A Nudist Camp
​And It Changed Me In Ways I Never Saw Coming*
*U.S., Australia, Canada and Korea editions;
also published by Fimela Magazine in Indonesia
​​Daddy Issues

Steve Austin's Thoughts on Gay Marriage
​Shouldn't be a Stunner

Phone Sex Change*
*Also featured on the Writing Class Radio Podcast, inspired a story for ​Jezebel, and also published in The Daily Dot, Honeysuckle and the Byline Bible.

​Seeing Through Stained Glass: Gay, Catholic, and Conflicted
​
Will and Grace helped me come out.
​​​Now, I'm hoping it will grow up.

My birthday is on Valentine's Day. ​It's a double
​ ​dose of disappointment.
* Also published by Stuff  (New Zealand)

​I love my boyfriend. But do I love his dog?*
*Also published by Stuff, The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
​The Denver Post and The Napa Valley Register

​​You made lobster? ​How romantic--and nauseating​

​​At 35, I Realized I'd Never Been in a Significant Relationship

I'm Struggling to Find the Perfect Place for My Father's Urn

I Was Embarrassed of My Cancer-Surgery Scar on My Chest


​Peeing in Public is Pretty ​Much ​My Worst Nightmare
​
​"You're too Vanilla" : Confessions ​of a Sexually Tame Gay Man