Motherless
My personal essay "Motherless" has been published in the literary magazine Down In the Dirt by Scars Publications. 🥹
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It'll come out in their January issue in print too!
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http://scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g12387.txt
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I'm very honored to get started on this journey as a writer - here I said it, I called myself the unspeakable thing, I called myself a writer. Thank you life, thank you for letting me be one of us.
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I wrote this essay last year. I was worried that I wouldn't like it anymore once published, but I was wrong. It still has all its power.
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I choose to publish under my pen name Mona Angéline for reasons of privacy.
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Also: I'm fine, healed, ok. This was written for the sake of writing, not because I need help.
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PS: this might be a lifetime opportunity to publish both creative and scientific writing on the same day.
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Trigger warning: sexual abuse, family abuse