By Amy Silverberg

Amy Silverberg is a doctoral fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in The Collagist , The LA Review of Books , Joyland , The Offing and elsewhere. She performs stand-up and sketch comedy around Los Angeles. She likes animals doing human activities. Follow her on Twitter @AmySilverberg

  1. The Improv Coach

    By Amy Silverberg

    in The Butter

    I’m standing on the sidewalk watching a woman put on makeup in her car—concealer on her neck, to be exact—and I wonder if she has a hickey or just an insecurity that she is trying to remove, or at the very least, briefly cover up. I am in the midst of leaving a man’s house, where I perform for an hour or two twice a week. Not a sexual act, no, just improvisational comedy, though…

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