MARK JASON WILLIAMS
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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

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


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

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​Seeing Through Stained Glass: Gay, Catholic, and Conflicted
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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​

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​​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


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​Peeing in Public is Pretty ​Much ​My Worst Nightmare

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​"You're too Vanilla" : Confessions ​of a Sexually Tame Gay Man

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Parenting My Mom During a Pandemic

​An Introvert's Guide To Pride

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The Royal Wedding is Ruining My Anniversary

Choking on Christmas



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I Like Waking Up In Unfamiliar Places (Fiction)

A Spot in Hell

Battling Anxiety Alongside ​a Million Strangers

​​Dancing with Trump at My Gay Wedding
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