Masks

This Is Not Where the Story Starts

An origin story about survival, performance, motherhood, and memory. A memoir-in-progress tracing how truth, trauma, and identity collide.

Jan 5 • Alisa Sieber

I Was in Hell While Living a Fairytale

Over flat wine from France, I could finally be honest with my husband about the fairytale life I'd been performing. About the castle where I felt…

Nov 1, 2025 • Alisa Sieber

The Water at Fly Ranch

I learned my body knew how to surface. I didn't know yet that floating alone was only half the work.

Oct 9, 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

I Built Myself to Be Wanted

What happens when desirability becomes your survival strategy.

Feb 24, 2003 • Alisa Sieber

A Series of Random Thoughts

A raw journal entry written at age thirteen after starting a new school, grappling with identity, belonging, and unanswerable questions that shaped a…

Feb 20, 2001 • Alisa Sieber

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