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Margaret Dean

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Ellemeno

The View From Here

A fringe-dweller’s story about making a contribution to society

Feb 20

The View From Here

Feb 20

Published in
Catharsis Chronicles

Waiting for the Conviction to Dive

If the tide was high at just the right early hour of the day, we would go to the river

Oct 5

A photo of a woman standing on top of a dune and looking away to the sky

Oct 5

Published in
Minds Without Borders

A Bittersweet Love Letter to Singular Cows, Like Me

One night when the power went off, I wished it would never come on again

Sep 8

Photo of a cow standing in a paddock in the morning fog

Sep 8

Published in
Full Frame

The Regrettable Impermanence of the Digital Medium

A cautionary fairy tale about how I lost years of digital work

Aug 11

A sepia-toned image of a fairy sitting on a rock surrounded by tree roots

Aug 11

Published in
Ellemeno

When Books Become Horcruxes

I’ve stashed little pieces of me inside them: they are the keepers of my identity

Jul 17

Photo of a late-middle aged woman reading a book called Everything a Teenage Girl Needs to Know

Jul 17

Published in
Minds Without Borders

The Weight of My Wants

A homeless stranger erodes my happy little working-class rut

Jun 25

An incongruous photo of a woman reading Shakespeare in an abandoned pig shed.

Jun 25

Published in
Ellemeno

A Mutiny Of Bones

A conversation with recalcitrant bones about aging, but it’s not just the joints that stop bending

May 23

A Mutiny Of Bones

May 23

Published in
The Interstitial

God from the DVD Machine

Yearnings for ancient magic, and an unfulfilled destiny

May 15

A gouache painting depicting a Greek goddess and a woman with a shield and a spindle, trying to fight against her destiny

May 15

Published in
Age of Empathy

The Band-Aid Tin

On the avoidance of pain, and other unintentional self-harms

May 2

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a bed with a bandage on her head

May 2

Becoming a Resident of Wonderland

Being autistic is like being Alice, isolated and confused, but why not find our community among the mad people instead?

Apr 26

Becoming a Resident of Wonderland

Apr 26

Margaret Dean

Margaret Dean

Neurodivergent, semi-reclusive oddbod. Sometime biker, sometime photographer, oftentime just very confused. Still waiting for clarity in my late middle age.

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