Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother

Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 2, 2019
Length: 19 minutes (4,770 words)

The Rejection

Writing is not farming or surgery or road construction, but it isn’t easy either. Rejection stings. It undermines, and it’s unavoidable. When a talented, respected memoirist attends a literary event with a poet who left a painful mark on her, she reconciles with her past and questions not only what sort of marks she’s left on her peers, but what she’s made of her old injury.

Source: Kenyon Review
Published: Nov 1, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4,105 words)