The Butcher's Darling.
Jennie Lightweis-GoffAwful but cheerful.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 260 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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Forbidden Grief Thoughts.
We Therefore Commit Her Body to the Deep (Part 3)
This is an evolving list of ‘forbidden grief thoughts’ — some mine, some yours, some shared in confidence and therefore anonymized — that I have heard and overheard since 2014. The song is...
Slip the Yoke
We Therefore Commit Her Body to the Deep (Part 2)
I’m beginning to think I’m easy to kill, I texted my partner. The third of my four siblings has died, and my first instinct is to peel off all my skin. Replace it with theirs. Let them take...
We therefore commit her body to the deep.
Part 1
That my sister died just after midnight — six months after her second marriage, to her high school sweetheart, and one year and eleven months after our brother choked to death with alcoholic asphyxia on the floor of a restaurant — i...
"For my singing body your spectral anchor."
Graffitti, spotted in the Marigny (A.D. 9/22/2025, 2:39pm)
That’s the whole ‘Stack. I’ve been a bit blocked; pain is heavy as a bear.
"You were the love of my life," or, The Finding of Facts.
Hurricane Katrina, Year 20
The first thing you should know is that floodwater is not water. Back in Rochester, awaiting news after the storm, I told Burke that the curriculum for preschool should be one lesson: teach the kids what puddle t...
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Flâneuse, scholar, and writer. Jennie in jammies, Dr. LG on the dotted line. Author of Blood at the Root (2011), Captive City (2024), Porgy's Cart (2026), and The Chef's Sabbath (soon).
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