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Words Shape Lives.

Monica Drake
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Stories matter, real and imagined. Words matter.

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Wild Pantry

Wild Pantry is a reoccurring column that explores our personal relationships with particular foods

More at the link. It’s an esteemed magazine. I see two submission windows, opening today an...

6 days ago
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I Had An Orange, in Oregon.

“An orange is orange.”

That sentence—it’s true! Sure, sure, absolutely…—but somehow also incredibly dull. It goes against meaning, against poetry, against something in the brain that wants more. An orange is orange. It’s the linguistic eq...

8 days ago
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Let’s Read Essays Together!

Hey there,

It’s starting to feel like a hint of fall here in Portland, even as the afternoons stay warm. School is starting! I love this time of year. My internal calendar is a school-year calendar, and right now we’re all beginning….

Wo...

8 days ago
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Blackberrying.

There are food reviews and recipes, as two separate ways of thinking about food. One is after the meal, after somebody else has done the work. Does anyone review their own cooking and publish it?

The other is hopeful, ready to make someth...

9 days ago
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What’s a Favorite Food From Childhood

When I was a kid I actually loved pickled pigs’ feet. They came in a jar of brine, salty and fatty. They were like bacon crossed with potato chips and pickles. What’s better than that? They were knuckled and jammed together, cartilage disin...

10 days ago
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    Author of Clown Girl, The Stud Book, and The Folly of Loving Life. Short work in The New York Times Modern Love, Paris Review Daily and more. Find her on Substack at Words Shape Lives.

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