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Writer. Former attorney. EIC @splitlipthemag . Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Next up: Harvard Review

New York, NY

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8 months

I wrote a short story about a character named Taylor Swift, & @SmokeLong was kind enough to publish it. "Deliver Us" is dedicated to my dear mom, who is a force. Thank you to @Christopher_All & the SLQ team, as well as @taylorswift13 for the inspiration.

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Deliver Us - SmokeLong Quarterly

Taylor Swift came to visit during a burst of summer rain. She tracked mud from the construction site on Route 252 in on her boots—the ones with the faux snake scales. She had walked a long way and...

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11yo put on a blazer & gave us a presentation on why we should get a guinea pig, complete with apple slides, cute pics, & video. My favorite moment was when husband raised his hand & she said, "I'm going to hold all questions until the end of the presentation."

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Did you happen to lose a gigantic bag of carrots on the streets of NYC? Because I found it.

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During an endless pandemic it is OK to buy a random birthday cake when it’s nobody’s birthday simply because you thought it was pretty.

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My aunt died of Covid this morning. Very sad times.

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PLEASE I BEG YOU TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE SUPREME COURT than to that horrible debate performance. The Supreme Court's power grab is MORE IMPORTANT. We cannot let Trump nominate any more judges. Period. Let's wake up and get real about what is at risk.

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Who said COVID is like a cold? I’m so sick I cannot believe it. This is absolutely miserable. The worst part is my lungs. I think I have an instant ear infection. Every part of me hurts. I’m nauseated. I’m exhausted but it’s hard to sleep. I can understand how people die of this.

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Waking up to Anne Carson & thinking, oh dear god, yes. “People should just quit that stuff.”

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Seems like a good moment for this to go viral: Alicita Rodríguez’s flash, “How to Know You’re a Woman in a Junot Díaz Novel.” Published in @coppernickel (Spring 2017)

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Look at all the pigeons!!! It’s like they each rented their own apartment.

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“The same people who think wearing a mask impedes their freedom want to control what happens in women’s uteruses because this was never about life in the first place but about control.”

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Max update: the vet removed his feeding tube! He’s getting the twinkle back in his eye and has a hop in his step again.

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I was not expecting my dad, on his 80th bday weekend, to sit me down with a checklist of all the places I have to call & all the things I have to deal w/ after he dies. My dad, btw, is perfectly healthy so this is just him planning ahead & being a death overachiever.

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The little libraries in Vermont are next level! Broken down by genre! Poetry has its own house!!!

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3 years

10yo is VAXED!!!!!!!!

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“women will lose a constitutional right they’ve had for 50 years at a time when many on the right defend their refusal to be vaccinated for COVID-19 with the slogan ‘My body, my choice.’ Because, apparently, irony is dead.”

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I wrote "Your body, not your choice" in @TheAtlantic

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I’m sorry but WHAT??? This makes me want to go back to practicing law just to sue the state of Louisiana.

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Hey you all, it's my 24th wedding anniversary! Isn't that cool? For me, this marriage thing has been a very happy journey. I love C & feel lucky every day to share this life with him. We can still talk for hours, we still laugh a ton together, he's still my very favorite person.

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These are actual figurines in my parents’ house. I’m sleeping at my brother’s so they can’t kill me in my sleep.

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We are still making pandemic banana bread over here, but it just got a whole lot spookier.

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3 years

I love the urgent texts from my 10yo.

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10 months

I find myself returning to this classic poem by @ilya_poet yet again.

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1 year

Big Announcement: I am starting a new social media site called POEMS & PIE. It’s a drive-up window where I hand you a slice of emergency key lime pie, a bag of Doritos, & a poem.

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The key, I have learned, is to read poetry. Lots of poetry. As often as you can. As many different authors as possible.

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Today is the 1st day I’m waking up without my mom. I was holding her hand as she left us. It was a great privilege to be there in her final moment & to have this remarkable woman as a mom. Her last words to me were: You’re so pretty, Mo. It was she who made everything beautiful,

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The magic of Twitter has left the room for me since Elon took over. I just don't find it as much fun here. I'm not leaving, but my heart isn't in it the way it used to be. Maybe it's me and not the platform. But I'd be curious if you feel the same...

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I have 2 aunts who became extremely ill with Covid this month. We've been very worried about them both. The aunt who was vaccinated is recovering. The aunt who was unvaccinated lost her life. So tragic that her death could have been prevented.

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Why don’t we ever see baby pigeons?

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12yo is outraged that she’s been assigned to edit poems she wrote at school. “My poems are mostly about emotions I felt in that moment. How can I revise an emotion?”

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If you are a lit mag that only publishes solicited or agented work, it is OK to shut down your slush pile. You do not have to keep up the pretense of an open submittable queue if you are not publishing from it. Save yourself & authors the time & aggravation. Be transparent. 🙏🏻❤️

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Oh wow! Alice Munro struggled too! This is somehow reassuring to hear on a week when I am definitely “grouching around.” Maybe you will find it reassuring also?

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Friends! I finished the first draft of my novel!! Long road of edits ahead of me but feeling very grateful to have made it this far.

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At last, some good news! My mom's scans show that she is cancer-free. Though it almost killed her, the treatment worked. Very grateful for all the support from friends here. It has meant a lot. ❤️🙏🏻

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If you are publishing work this month, you might feel uncomfortable promoting it, given the atrocities in the US right now. But I encourage you to share widely and loudly. We need art and words and story and poem more than ever.

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I had one of my favorite NYC dreams: when you find out there’s a whole new room in your apartment you somehow didn’t know you had. Has anyone else ever dreamed this?

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Multiple people at the outdoor memorial we went to just tested positive for Covid. All were double vaccinated. Only one person’s symptomatic & they’re pretty sick. But not hospitalized. Vaccine is doing its job. But we can still catch & spread this thing even when fully vaxxed.

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“Marginalizing vulnerable groups is a classic authoritarian trope, which DeSantis seems to have down pat.” I’m absolutely petrified of DeSantis & I’m glad to see @MollyJongFast ringing the alarm bell here:

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Ron DeSantis Shouldn’t Be Covered Like Just Another Republican

Florida’s wannabe autocrat and possible 2024 contender isn’t Trump, but he’s as dangerous to democracy.

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@laurieallee Right before the pandemic, a dog sprayed diarrhea all over the seat & onto my child during a flight. The flight attendants gave us perfume to deal with the biohazard! When we landed, they prepared the plane for the next unsuspecting passengers. Not enough time for proper cleaning

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Anyone else feeling irritable and out of sorts? Head-achy? Having a hard time concentrating? Experiencing a looming dread?

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My first published poem! In @pshares ! So grateful to John Skoyles & Ladette Randolph for including me in this gorgeous issue alongside so many writers I admire.

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Between Thanksgiving & March, I had 5 viruses, including the flu, 2 stomach bugs, & a month-long battle with severe asthmatic bronchitis. Since my kids haven’t been in school, I have had no illnesses. None. ZERO. I am petrified of getting COVID if my kids go back to school.

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Cardinal perched among red berries!!! A walk doesn’t get much better than this.

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A man passing by made fun of me for lying down in the snow to get some close ups of these little leaves. But I stand by the effort. I find the juxtaposition of fall and winter so poignant and beautiful.

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3 years

Got a vax appointment for the 10yo!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2 years

One big thing I've learned from working at a lit mag is how important titles are. Good ones really help you stand out & heighten the reader's excitement to dive into the submission. It predisposes the reader to like the piece & sometimes even means you get read faster.

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Virginia Woolf dropping truth bombs in parentheticals: “(it is not often that one has no anxiety)”

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@salesses I went for a walk after seeing your tweet, and everywhere I looked there were hearts. Big and small. Green and white and pink. One even held a tear drop. I collected some here for you and your family. Carrying you all in my heart today.

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Shout out to everyone volunteering as readers at lit mags & small publishers during a frickin PANDEMIC. It takes real dedication & generosity to do this when the world is falling apart. Mag staffs are reading through personal loss, stress, upheaval, childcare issues, & more. ❤️

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I don't know how anyone is doing any work this week. Are you all as exhausted, distracted, and anxious as I am?

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"How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully with all their feet on the ground! ...I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement." -Virginia Woolf

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Max is back on his feet! Smiling in Central Park again!

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Lit mags/publishers/organizations that run contests & fail to inform submitters of rejections BEFORE announcing winners SUCK. If you run a contest, be ethical, responsible, and kind. Don't be an asshole.

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Anyone else out there have kids with terrible insomnia right now? Anxiety levels are through the roof in our house & I'm not sure how to handle it. My kids' stress causes me anxiety. Which then causes them further anxiety. It's such a vicious circle. A giant stress ball.

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This is 50! Still taking baby steps. Still jumping for joy.

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Got an acceptance recently. Was so touched that the editor took the time to write me a long note after the acceptance about the things she & the other team members liked about my piece. She quoted from reader comments. It was an act of kindness that I will treasure forever.

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This little one is 18! I’m the mom of a full-grown adult! Feeling so much gratitude, love, & joy. I am so lucky I was able to have this baby & that we both made it to this day. It’s been quite a journey & I’m very proud of the remarkable person my kid has grown up to be.

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If Twitter tanks or goes to a pay-to-play system, it will kill some literary mags. I’m serious. A lot of publications are going to die without an audience or a way to communicate submission windows, calls for work, readings, sales.

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My friend’s mass was benign!!!!!!! No ovarian cancer!!!!!!!!!!!! Hysterectomy went well. She’s going home from hospital today. I’m going to go listen to the bagpipers on Fifth Ave to celebrate in her honor—she was quite the Irish dancer back in the day! ☘️

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The flash team @splitlipthemag is reading a lot of subs this weekend & I thought I'd share some reader/editor comments I keep seeing. Most common: This is not yet a story; it is just a (1) description of a place, (2) scene, or (3) character study. There isn't plot/movement/shift.

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I’m becoming the sluttiest reader. I just pick up whatever I’m in the mood for in the moment, don’t finish books, skip stories in collections, read random pages in lit mags on my shelves from years ago. I’m worried I have a commitment problem.

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I am so touched & totally shocked that @coppernickel has awarded my 3 flashes their Editors' Prize for Prose. Huge thanks to Wayne Miller, Teague Bohlen, & the entire CN team. It was an honor just to be published in the pages of a journal I admire so deeply. 🙏🏻❤️

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Check out Maureen Langloss' story "Montauk"—one of three flash fictions that won the Copper Nickel Editors' Prize for Prose for issue 30!

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“The women of my mother’s generation were born during World War II. They spent years fighting to matter the way men did…These women fought ferociously for decades to expand their rights only to watch those rights begin to evaporate after 2016.” @MollyJongFast

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I wrote about my mother and @ejeancarroll and women of a certain age and what this victory means for them and for all of us

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Annual pancake Christmas tree.

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10yo: How many words did you write today? Me: None. Why? 10yo: Well, I wrote 514. How many are you supposed to write a day if you are a writer? Me: 👀 👀

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Raise your hand if you are experiencing so much stress and anxiety about so many things at once that you are surprised your body is still holding together. Like shouldn’t our eyeballs be bleeding from all we are witnessing? And our hearts exploding? And our minds jamming?

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I’ve been a writer for 30 years, but I do not know how to write a condolence letter to my friend whose teenager just died of suicide. Because there are no words for this.

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Feeling incredibly emotional & grateful to see my story about Prince, "Sexy Motherfucker's Mom," in the new issue of @kenyonreview . Huge thanks to @KirstenReach for supporting my work. Thanks also to @mrjohnpickard . What a wonderful, thoughtful team at KR!

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Our May/June '21 issue is here! With new work by Rita Dove, @marianneLchan , Jonathan Gleason, @MaureenLangloss , @ginathechung , and more. Check it out!

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Writing advice of the day: if you don't have a website, make one immediately!! Even if it's simple. Even if you only have 1 or 2 pubs. I cannot tell you how many times I've wanted to read more work by an author & given up looking when it's hard to find.

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The French 75 is the drink you make when the 5000-word story you worked on for 4 years is accepted by a journal you adore.

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We writers should hold these words of Sinéad O'Connor close. (As quoted in her NYT obituary)

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@kellyyanghk Thank you for sharing your story. The way you were treated was appalling. I’m so sorry. While I was never sexually assaulted at HLS, there were many sexist moments that made me very uncomfortable & soured me on the legal education I received. I’ve never donated to the school.

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My mom has mostly stopped eating except for fresh squeezed orange juice. She rarely drank OJ before going into hospice care. But my grandmother did squeeze a glass for my grandfather every morning of their marriage. I think my mom is drinking this memory, returning to them.

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I love how musicians warm up with scales before practice. My kid is so mindful when she does this. She really really listens to each note. Writers need something like this. And I don't think it's journaling. We need something more repetitive, instinctual, in/of the body.

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Friends, I am truly living my best life. Last night it was cold enough to wear BOTH a turtleneck & the corduroy suit I’ve dreamed of for years. We had outdoor dinner with dear old friends & laughed & cried & just felt happy & alive.

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I once went to an event about Grace Paley & the topic of whether she was a good mother came up. I know so many fathers who concentrated on their careers & were terrible parents. Yet somehow this doesn’t come up in their events & obits. Fuck this discussion of Didion’s parenting.

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Today in NYC trash: WHY? Why would anyone throw this away? Should I wear it to AWP?

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Raise your hand if you are finding it really hard today.

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I keep asking myself: What makes a flash work? What? What? I keep failing at the answer. Such an elusive thing to explain. It’s more an I-know-it-when-I-see-it situation. So I made a list of some stellar pieces that stand out in my mind & I’m going to thread them.

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Book banning and the closure of a major university literary magazine are very much related.

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Just received my Christmas morning rejection! With an ask that I subscribe! LOL

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Hey, you want to be a good member of the literary community? Take a COVID test before you attend AWP. If you have any symptoms or a positive test, do not go to AWP. Think how many people you could infect at the crowded book fair, panel, or offsite event. Think of others. ♥️

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"Landslide" came on my playlist. When it got to the "Can I handle the seasons of my life?" part, I had to answer no. No, some seasons suck. Anyway, my mom is really sick with COVID on top of already being really sick with cancer. Things feel scary & hard & sad. So very sad.

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My husband and I have lost a dear friend to suicide and we are devastated. Heartbroken that he was in so much pain, heartbroken for his wife and three incredible children. We deeply regret not following through with that hangout on Zoom we’d been emailing about.

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I didn’t really understand what OCD was until my kid developed it. Now I see how debilitating, all-consuming, & truly horrible it can be. I’m sorry for anyone who is struggling through it. I have never met a bigger parenting challenge. It’s heartbreaking & I am so unprepared.

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Beyond grateful to the amazing editors @coppernickel for including three of my flashes in their gorgeous new issue. Pictured is the tiniest of the stories. It started as a poem.

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A quote from @splitlipthemag staff guidelines: readers should not comment on submissions or submitters, nor quote from submissions or cover letters, on social media or elsewhere. Reading unpublished work is a sacred trust that we aim not to violate.

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Now I want justice for Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill.

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4 years

Seriously, though, NYC is glorious when it’s snowing & I feel lucky to be alive tonight.

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2 years

Ummmm. What?????? Thank you so much to the BASS team, @HeidiPitlor @AQReview , & Ronald Spatz. I almost died when I saw my name tucked in there by Yiyun Li!!!!

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An all-male pushcart nominations list in 2019 is appalling and unacceptable.

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4 years

I’m hung over from 2 glasses of champagne, I turn 50 in 2021, & I’ve told my writer’s group I’m going to deliver on a first draft of my novel by my birthday. Can I do it? Probably not. But I’m going to try. Happy New Year, friends. 🥳

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Survived my mom’s funeral mass yesterday. It was beautiful. The Ave Maria. The incense. We all wore florals instead of black. Was moving to spend time with my mom’s siblings. Now on the way to drop my kid at a summer program. Crossing the Hudson. Onward.

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There are times when I feel a wee bit overwhelmed by the stress of editing a mag. But seeing Gettysburg College kill their legendary literary review & all of you rallying against the awful decision sure reinvigorates a sense of purpose. This lit work is so important & meaningful.

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OMG!!!! I'm in shock! Thank you so much @SmokeLong ! I'm so touched to receive this nomination. It was a dream to be published in SLQ in the first place, so this feels completely unreal. Sending love to @Christopher_All , the whole SLQ team, & fellow nominees.💜

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Announcing our nominations for The Best Small Fictions 2024! We were privileged to publish these incredible stories by @MaureenLangloss @OlaposiH @sarahillswrites @LibbyCudmore @vfovibha ⭐️🌟💫✨

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10yo just asked: if there’s Business School, is there also None of Your Business School?

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It’s hard to concentrate on the Oscars when I have to do all this important Kate Middleton research at the same time.

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Correction: it’s OK to buy any cake any time.

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@SenatorCollins @chicpoetics Hypocrite

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1 year

Why do people have to be so judgmental about someone choosing to wear a mask? Why does it bother non-maskers so much? What’s it to them? Anyway, this week I got made fun of for wearing one by someone I know. I just found it so rude & disrespectful.

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Hey friends. I am begging you to PLEASE PLEASE immediately withdraw from other lit mags when your piece is accepted elsewhere. Editors & readers are often working for free. Be considerate & don't waste our time! Thank you!

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I've been putting off some medical stuff because of not wanting to enter a hospital or medical building during covid surge, but today I'm doing one of the things on my list. Are you in this situation too? I wonder how our health is suffering in non-covid ways because of covid.

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