John, by Joyce Miller

Prose, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

While paying to live in an Airbnb that was formerly her parents' house, frustrated by the economic landscape ever encroaching upon her core identity, a young drama school graduate makes an entrance into street prostitution.

With the help of social media, childhood cockroaches, and John, she revitalizes her acting career under the stage name Ms. Dillard with money she saves from her new side hustle…until envious classmates and bitter ex-clients decide to put her back in her place.

Joyce Miller (she/her) is a Philadelphia born, New York based writer and performer. Satire: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, McSweeney’s Top Ten Most Read Articles of the Year, Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: Twenty-One Years of Humor From McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (McSweeney’s, 2019). Her work is mentioned in AfterEllen and Autostraddle. Awards: Best Satire, United Solo Festival 2023. Anthologies: Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Bluebird (Bottlecap Press, 2023) Pyramid Scheme (Bookleaf Press, 2023/Self Published) Education: Tisch School of the Arts/Atlantic Theater Company. www.joycemiller.info