Humor + Essays
Published Work
NEW! NEW! NEW!
(2025: A real mixed bag of humor and heartbreak)
The World is Burning But Want to Meet Up for $34 Cocktails?
McSweeney’s / August 15, 2025
““See, the $34 Crow-jitos pay for themselves when a theme is well-executed! Speaking of: The only item on the appetizer menu is an ‘egg flight.’ Sounds gross—we’ll have to try it.””
““I have spent the last 20 years doing haphazard exercises in vulnerability. For me, personally, there is nothing more vulnerable than admitting A Certain Life Moment didn’t go as planned.””
Keep Calm & Miscarry On
Via SKR Says Too Much / Substack
April 15, 2025
Excerpts From a Red-Hot Right-Wing Romance Novel
McSweeney’s / March 26, 2025
““Afterward, we held hands and looked into each other’s deep-blue patriotic eyes. ‘This feels so real,’ he said. ‘Unlike climate change.’””
“Women are miraculous beings. The way we not only exist in these bodies that endure, but thrive in them despite.”
The Silver Linings of a Miscarriage
Why I’m Not Losing Weight for My Wedding
On giving my chin a plus-one.
Yahoo! Lifestyle
yahoo.com/creators/sararunnels
An REI byline?!
Please enjoy this off-brand con-tent.
MORE FUNNY STUFF
It’s Time for a Netflix Inspired Dating App – Yahoo! Life
The Last Dating App on Earth – Slackjaw
A Creative Brief For Composing A DM To My Crush – Finalist in the 2021 Slackjaw Humor Writing Challenge
Single Men Pitch Themselves to Me on Shark Tank – Finalist in the 2019 Slackjaw Humor Writing Challenge
An Influencer Unboxes the Super-Cute COVID-19 Vaccine – The Bold Italic
Q&A with a LinkedIn Influencer – Slackjaw
Prepared Remarks for Singles at Thanksgiving – Featured in Medium’s Human Parts
My Self-Partnership Registry – Slackjaw
Digital Halloween Costumes – Featured in Medium’s GEN Mag
Introducing: Sheet Mascs for Men – Humungus
Married People’s Instagram Captions vs. Mine – Featured in Medium’s Human Parts
My Millennial Funeral ☠️ – Featured in Medium’s Human Parts
Alternatives to Hot Girl Summer – co-written on The Belladonna Comedy
Welcome to Millennial Airlines – Featured on Medium’s Human Parts
Beyonce’s Imagined Presidential Platforms – Weekly Humorist
Subscribe to SpinsterSwag® – Slackjaw
My First Reading (from my teenage LiveJournal) @ the Salon of Shame
Jeff Bezos’s First Few Days as a Bachelor, as Described by Alexa Commands
Why Be a Victoria's Secret Angel When You Can Be a T.J. Maxx Cherub? – Featured on Medium’s Humor Page
Personal Essays, ETC. #letsgetdeep
Part Two:
Verbs in Past Tense
On loving her, on losing her
November 2022
Part One: Breathe In, Breathe Out
On trying to process imminent grief
June 2022 – Human Parts
The Uncertainty of Motherhood When You’re the 37-Year-Old Fun Single Aunt
December 2021 – Human Parts
October 2020 – Human Parts
All the Write Angles 2020 – Curious
A Tough Call – Featured in Medium’s Human Parts
The 48-Hour Second Date – Featured in Medium’s Human Parts
On Letting (Yourself) Go – A “Goodbye to All That” Essay on Leaving NYC
Sundance: A Timeline & Tale of Pure Luck, Inspiration & Expensive Elk
Seven Years in New York City (or Why I'll Live Here Forever)
Fiction:
ALL THE MEN IN PARIS: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, 8 & 9, Chapter 10
Sex + The City 5: Bright Lights, Old Bitches (A parody)
And more:
Feature length comedy screenplay for Going Out available upon request.
Spec script for Broad City available upon request.
Spec script for Prospect Heights (half-hour comedy) available upon request.
CASUALLY Mentioned around the web ON…
Outside – Shania Twain Shares Hilarious Acronyms
Quarantine Interview / Comic of the Day – comedy network live
Politico – eHealth Tweet of the Day
NBC News – Dating During Coronavirus
Writer Websites That Rank Well: 8 Secrets of Top NYC Writers
The time Queen Beyonce herself posted my picture on her official Facebook page
Cosmopolitan – 42 Halloween Pun Costumes That’ll Make Everyone Laugh Out Loud for Real (#5 AND #11)
GoodHousekeeping – 25+ Pun Halloween Costumes That Are Too Good to Pass Up (#21)
InStyle – Gwyneth Paltrow Is Standing Inside a Vagina and Everyone Has Questions
HuffPost – Yes, ‘Will & Grace’ Went After Trump In Its First Episode In 11 Years
2017 interview with me on McSweeney’s Patron page
Praise for "And God Created Millennial Earth" —>"It's so good. Just the perfect thing." – Sam Sanders, NPR's It's Been a Minute
"LOL." – Mayim Bialik
"Blasphemous and a total blast at the same time." – God, probs
Read an interview with me about the piece.
- Read an excerpt from “I Like My Men Like I Like My…” in Reader’s Digest
