My latest micro-fiction is featured over at CHEAP POP today. "Monstrous, Chaotic Things" was inspired by my dear friend Paige, who died two years ago of ovarian cancer, leaving five small children behind with their dad. Although Paige did not give her family an ornithology guide, … [Read more...]
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Resurrection
It’s been a minute. Life has been a bit of a blur. You see, my mom, Barbara Langloss, died of cancer at 8:15am on Tuesday, July 16. She waited for Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth to get up there before making her fashionably late appearance at the tender age of 76. She didn’t die peacefully […]
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Maureen’s Giant Gift Guide
I started writing a post about the profound and overwhelming sadness I’ve felt since the election. But writing that post felt too profoundly and overwhelmingly sad! Impossible even. Then, somehow, I ended up here instead, putting together a gigantic gift guide for writers and readers. I’m so angry at the capitalist machine that brought us […]