Marriage As Protection

The Anniversary I Finally Told the Truth

A marriage built on a lie. A wedding performed for the audience. What happens when the truth finally has somewhere to land.

Mar 10 • Alisa Sieber

Christmas. A Love Hate Relationship. Part 2.

A decade of holidays spent performing, surviving, and holding it together. Motherhood, marriage, and the quiet unraveling no one saw.

Jan 1 • Alisa Sieber

I've Been Running From Heartbreak My Entire Life

A stranger assumed a man broke me. I let him believe it. The truth is more complicated: I am both the heartbreaker and the heartbroken. On finally…

Oct 21, 2025 • Alisa Sieber

I Did Something Bad

A visceral autofiction prologue about the American Dream, desire, self-betrayal, and the moment before everything finally breaks open.

Aug 5, 2021 • Alisa Sieber

Don't Leave Me High and Dry

A visceral postpartum autofiction chapter exploring motherhood, trauma, and survival through lived experience, memory, and music.

Jan 6, 2019 • Alisa Sieber

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