I Keep Meaning to Write About the Day You Were Born
I Keep Meaning to Write About the Day You Were Born

“I’m not saying in those years I tried to forget you but I tried to stop remembering you… I could not forget you anymore than I could forgive myself for trying to.”

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Creative Non-FictionSubmissionadoption, motherhood, parenthood, holly pelesky, creative non-fiction, creative writing, cnf, pussy magic, literature, literary community, children, adulthood, choices, decisions, pro-choice, women, women's issues, reflectionComment
First Morning After
First Morning After

“When JD is gone, I run the third-floor shower as hot as I can stand it. Hotter. I sit hunched in my aunt’s pristine clawfoot tub and rock, scratching at my skin flaring red as it scalds. A leaden balloon swells in my gut, full and empty at once. My body is cavernous. My bones are hollow. I slink into the bed where he was an hour ago.”

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In which I love the literary witchery of Shirley Jackson
In which I love the literary witchery of Shirley Jackson

“Some have said Jackson was also a literal, practicing witch, but I don’t think we can ever know for certain – and I don’t think we should try to work it out, either.”

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Herstory, Personal Essay, LiteratureKate Garrettshirley jackson, kate garrett, literature, literary community, halloween, happy halloween, the haunting of hill house, we have always lived in the castle, the lottery, witch, literary witch, witch writers, witchy writers, witchcraft, witchy woman, witchy poetry, occult, mysticism, a fire moon reflected on the water, poetry, poem, hecate, rhythm and bones, the saint of milk and flames, female authors, female writers, women authors, vamp cat magazineComment