Pleased to share my essay from "Poets & Writers" that details the story of how I came very close to landing an agent who ending up ghosting me and wrecking my spirit for a good while. Hope it helps other writers. I won't tag A. @poetswritersinc pw.org/content/ghosted_how_a…
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i highly recommend a clingy, lovey-dovey partner. life’s too short to be with someone who acts like showing love is a chore
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“if you sleep in the afternoon, you won't sleep at night” me in the afternoon and night:
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“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else”. - Toni Morrison born Feb 18.
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― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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Some good news in the midst of a hard time. This story is from my collection that centers around a group of characters at a community swimming pool. Thanks so much @Sunlight_Press for giving "The Deep End" a wonderful home.
"Mom isn’t at our chair, either, and I wonder: what if the dark-haired man kidnapped her? What if I never see her again?" bit.ly/3PZhZGt Our week of fiction ends with the story, "The Deep End," by @PinktreesJ. Don't miss reading it today.
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With this speech and her earlier call conceding the race, Harris is affording Trump what he did not afford to the incoming Biden-Harris administration: a commitment to a peaceful transition of power and acknowledgment of a legitimate victory.
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Here's our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election:
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CNN has a story titled “where the Harris campaign went wrong.” Nope, I won’t read it. Harris ran a great campaign. The story should be titled “where the American people went wrong.”
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Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.
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Is everyone just staring at their phone and feel like they want to sob but they can’t because it’s just pure shock and nausea
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i'm going to be clinging to things like art, community, and empathy not just in the days to come, not just in the following years, but my entire life. those are the only things that make sense to me even when the rest of the world doesn't
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Once in a while—often—I revisit this poem by Bertolt Brecht:
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“I didn’t want to be pregnant” is actually the only reason a woman needs
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