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Selected Readings

Plum Recruit - "What Matters"

Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "The Pull"

Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "Angie"

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Our neighborhood has a sidewalk chalk artist, and I think she’s a girl.  Twelve, maybe thirteen ...


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Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "Angie"

Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "The Pull"

Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "Angie"

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Ann Kathryn Kelly reads her essay “Angie” for the Unlatched Open Mic Podcast, produced in London. 


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Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "The Pull"

Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "The Pull"

Unlatched Open Mic Podcast - "The Pull"

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Ann Kathryn Kelly reads her essay “The Pull” for the Unlatched Open Mic Podcast, produced in London. 


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Selected Essays

Paper Dragon - "The Price"

The Coachella Review - "The Color of Heartache"

The Coachella Review - "The Color of Heartache"

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The revolving door into 75 Francis Street, one of three entrances into Boston’s Brigham and Women’s ... 


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The Coachella Review - "The Color of Heartache"

The Coachella Review - "The Color of Heartache"

The Coachella Review - "The Color of Heartache"

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 In my garden, one of the first of my summer plants to push up from the ground in late May, after the spring ...


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Barren Magazine - "The Weight of Oars"

The Coachella Review - "The Color of Heartache"

Barren Magazine - "The Weight of Oars"

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My brother Sean and I had a routine the summer we spent in hospital waiting rooms. He’d pull ...


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Moxy Magazine - "Must"

Bacopa Literary Review - "Singultus"

Barren Magazine - "The Weight of Oars"

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I was at the final winery I’d be visiting in the Chianti region, seated at a long farm table with ... 


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Bacopa Literary Review - "Singultus"

Bacopa Literary Review - "Singultus"

Bacopa Literary Review - "Singultus"

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I hiccupped and slid into the booth beside Shelly. Wiggled out of my down coat. It was March, slushy ... 


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Under the Gum Tree - "Shift"

Bacopa Literary Review - "Singultus"

Bacopa Literary Review - "Singultus"

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A breeze swept off the water and into the car’s window as we crossed the Tobin Bridge toward home. 


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Selected Flash (< 750 Words)

433 - "Unrestricted"

X-R-A-Y Magazine - "The Pull"

X-R-A-Y Magazine - "The Pull"

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Dispatch, from a May morning. The birds don’t know. They didn’t get the memo. Their songs outside my ...  


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X-R-A-Y Magazine - "The Pull"

X-R-A-Y Magazine - "The Pull"

X-R-A-Y Magazine - "The Pull"

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 I’ve felt the pull for years, to see what’s out there, how it differs from what I understand of the world ...


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The Tiny Journal - "Angie"

X-R-A-Y Magazine - "The Pull"

The Tiny Journal - "Angie"

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I called it Angie. It made what I had sound less clinical. I wanted the term for my diagnosis, cavernous ...


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Rubbertop Review - "See"

Dream Journal - "At Waking"

The Tiny Journal - "Angie"

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 It snuck up on us, most of us. We see this now. Outside of a handful of specialists ...


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Dream Journal - "At Waking"

Dream Journal - "At Waking"

Dream Journal - "At Waking"

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It’s the news, it must be the news. Why else would I dream something so horrific?   


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Lunate - "Rise"

Dream Journal - "At Waking"

Dream Journal - "At Waking"

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My skin, this January morning, thirsts for moisture. For lotion, a balm to soothe the itching  ...


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Craft Essays & Travel

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

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“A fiction writer starts with meaning, then manufactures events to represent it. A memoirist starts with events, then ...”  


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Pink Pangea - "Tapas, not Turkey"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

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I spent my 2017 Thanksgiving in Barcelona. It was a departure, in many ways, from how I typically celebrate this U.S. holiday ...


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Pink Pangea - "Trip of Triumph"

WOW! Women on Writing - "Muse and Meaning"

Pink Pangea - "Trip of Triumph"

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There’s no better way for me to remember to appreciate my blessings than to travel, and to begin to understand how the other half ... 


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