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Survival Instinct
The 3D Printed Rose
A mother reflects on presence, restraint, and hope while making art with her daughter, searching for a lost kitten, and learning when staying matters…
Jan 3
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Alisa Sieber
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The Missing Kitten
A raw monologue about motherhood, generational trauma, and the moment when love means not ending someone else’s search too soon.
Jan 3
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Alisa Sieber
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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
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Alisa Sieber
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Christmas. A Love Hate Relationship. Part 1.
A childhood moment shattered Christmas for me. This essay traces innocence lost, generational trauma, and how motherhood forced me to rebuild meaning…
Dec 29, 2025
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Alisa Sieber
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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
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Alisa Sieber
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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
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Alisa Sieber
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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
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Alisa Sieber
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Rules About Love
A journal written at seventeen, on birthdays, heartbreak, and the rules I made to survive longing I did not yet know how to release.
Jan 6, 2005
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Alisa Sieber
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Fifteen and Already Burned Out
Growing up in a volatile home can wire stress as baseline. A reflection on emotional regulation, attachment intensity, and breaking generational cycles.
Feb 3, 2003
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Alisa Sieber
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