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

Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

https://creativerunnings.com
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