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Bitter Hay
I disappeared for a bit. A few things happened that left me shrinking. Shrinking from others is one thing, but shrinking from your own mind is a problem. I got a concussion. I laid in bed for ten long days with an eye mask on, unable to process even the dim light of an overcast…
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Swimming For Your Life
There are times when terrible, cataclysmic things happen, and you grip the walls, demanding an answer on how the walls could look on and not intervene. When you want to run into the garden and grab the weeping willows and yank them all the way to the ground, hissing at them that…
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Pregnant Now
I’m pregnant now. I told a lot of friends early on. I never considered keeping it a secret. I adopted the refrain “Well if I miscarry I’ll just end up writing about it anyway, knowing me”. As if the subject matter of my writing lay outside my control. As if I, a pyre upon which…
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This is it. It’s the beginning. This is how it starts. And yet here you are in the middle of it, just stopped, holding your things: all the things you owned before, when you were a person who did things and bought things, and now all the additional things you own - your mom’s…
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