creative writing
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Book Diaries: My Best Friend’s Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix (2017)
Picked this up on a whim at the library and couldn’t put it down! I read My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix in just a couple of sittings because I was instantly hooked by the style and I HAD to know what happened! Some combination of the 80s setting and the teenaged main characters… Continue reading
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Book Diaries: Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder (2021)
Care warnings: eating disorder, self-harm, and homophobia. I swear, I didn’t set out to read another horny and vaguely-incest book right after Hysteria. We blame the algorithm of Scribd being like, you liked Daddy Kink, but have you tried Mommy? (Sorry.) Either way, I’m glad they did! Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder, is essentially a diary… Continue reading
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About the author (lol) on her 27th birthday
Here’s how it works: I write a few blog posts. I change my whole website’s branding. I update my out-of-date bio. I don’t post again for a whole year. Repeat. The cycle continues. Five years pass. And now I’m 27 and done with my MFA and actively working toward finishing my first book and trying… Continue reading
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16 Books I read in my MFA—Year 2
Literally just a list of books I read in my MFA program this year, with links to IndieBound! Continue reading
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A month of flash fiction–#FlashFloodAprilj
Reading Amelia Gray’s flash fiction burst forth something new in me. It was the accessible kind of fiction that I needed then because it was something I could actually see myself writing. I find that there is something very bolstering about flash fiction. It comes together quickly and more organically and seems to require less… Continue reading
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