Jessica McGlaughlin
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"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
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Blue Centipedes
The unsettling still before cloudburst lingered, effecting urgent fussing; fret. Pressure grew exponentially as night loomed. I’d lain out the estranged socks, diligently reuniting, when it happened. It’s an impressive thing, when the sky bursts. Explosive climate decompression; releasing. My parent’s house had a tin roof: flooding rain roared of steel drums, awesomely inundating. Grabbing socks atop my bedspread, charmed footfalls advanced me downstairs on time to elemental beat, descending perhaps too eagerly.
By Jessica McGlaughlinabout a month ago in Fiction
Lying to Children. Honorable Mention in The Ritual of Winter Challenge.
“Fuck! How hard is it to put your laundry in the basket?” Freeing soiled man-panties from entrapment by my ankles I silent head-cursed my husband. Prepared to deliver daily commands of urgency to children, I instead irritably demanded to know why Holly was at the foot of the stairs crying. I am not a morning person even on the best of days and this clearly, was not the best.
By Jessica McGlaughlin3 months ago in Humans
