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In the beginning, the baby’s nails were so delicate I could just pick them off when they got too long, like peeling off a bit of tape stuck to a gift...
Sep 1
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Rachael Maddux
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July 2023
Highly Meltable
Occasionally I desire to have my skull popped open, my brain removed, and all its grody nooks and crannies pressure washed clean — and never moreso than…
Jul 31
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June 2023
Goodnight Nobody
The baby slept in our bedroom for the first one hundred and ninety three nights of her life...
Jun 30
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Rachael Maddux
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May 2023
Venice Blue
Twenty years ago this month I graduated from high school, and twenty years ago next month...
May 31
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Rachael Maddux
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April 2023
Going, Going
The last day of my first office job began with an invitation to a mysterious staff meeting...
Apr 30
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Rachael Maddux
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March 2023
The Age of Mammals
One evening a few years ago Joe and I were walking the dog by the creek near our house when a thought out of nowhere appeared in my head...
Mar 26
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Rachael Maddux
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February 2023
Little Bum Bums
I knew the baby was going to arrive on the cusp...
Feb 26
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Rachael Maddux
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January 2023
The Babies In My Phone
The baby in my house goes to sleep or maybe she doesn’t...
Jan 29
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Rachael Maddux
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December 2022
36: Ding Dong
This time last year was the saline ultrasound and the endometrial biopsy and the hysterosalpingogram, then the antibiotics, then the IVF orientation…
Dec 31, 2022
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November 2022
35: Pitter Patter
Hello from five weeks into having pushed a small human out of a too-small hole in my body. The present scene is quieter than that one: I am here on my…
Nov 27, 2022
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October 2022
34: Swinging Bridge
Oct 31, 2022
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September 2022
33: Very Very
My brain feels soft and smooth and I am getting sporadically yoinked in the lungs by the small humanoid that lives inside my body, a dynamic that may…
Sep 25, 2022
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