Competing Childhood Narratives in "We Could Be Rats" by Emily Austin - Chicago Review of Books

How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

The Enduring Haunting of a Failed Driver's Test(s)

The Professional Resume of Survival Jobs (Abridged)

If you sing to periwinkles, it coaxes them out of their shell.

A Lesson in Magic from the Maine Coast

I’m a birthday person, and I am so sorry about it. Yes, I know. I know. I declare November my birthday month. It started as a Birthday weekend, then became a Birthday week, and now it’s gotten out of hand. 

Confessions of the Birthday Person

The woods loomed bigger in my head in the darkness of the blindfold. The trees stretched high toward the pre-dusk gray sky.  Decades of dead leaves crunched and squished under my feet, illuminated by the red flashes of my shoes. 

Meghan McGuire

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