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Jessie Lynn McMains

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Misfits

Chicago, 2004

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“To the carnival” is what she said

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MAGIC

Two girls, walking slow to a drawn-out
guitar. A little conga...
8 days ago
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Neal & Jack & Me

Across Illinois we ate soggy gas station fries; we buried a small sparrow dead yet still warm as a heart in our hands at a playground in Iowa; in Wisconsin there was whiskey and heartbreak; in Ohio there were cicadas falling from the trees...

12 days ago
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August, Lost Ache

a photo I took while riding the bus through Saint Paul; the poster reads: Big Loon Demands Sacrifice

I’ve had a difficult time adjusting back to real life since I got home from the road trip two weeks ago. It’s been hard going back to work...

a month ago
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I’ll Try to Find You

I’ll Try to Find You (Left of the Dial)

(The Replacements - “Left of the Dial,” Tim,

Sire Records, 1985 // here, now)

Listen.

I am trying to capture the static. The between-sound

burst of white noise, as the coil turns and tunes,...

2 months ago
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NaPoWriMo 2026: In Retrospect

Photo by Julie Jordan Scott; via Flickr

Every time I do a 30/30, I get to a point where I say to myself: “There’s no way I’m going to be able to complete it.” That was even more true this year, because my new job takes more of my time and...

5 months ago
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