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Ellemeno

The View From Here

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

Feb 20, 2024

The View From Here

Feb 20, 2024

Published in
Minds Without Borders

A Drawer Full of Bones, A Hat Full of Sky

Raising a fearless daughter who can resist the ‘hivers’

Dec 18, 2024

A photo of a young girl leaning against a motorbike that is loaded up with camping gear

Dec 18, 2024

Published in
Ellemeno

An Afternoon In My Strawberry Fields

Where there’s nothing to get hung about

Dec 7, 2024

A woman relaxing in an old bathtub outdoors, holding a glass of wine

Dec 7, 2024

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, 2024

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

Oct 5, 2024

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, 2024

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

Sep 8, 2024

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, 2024

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

Aug 11, 2024

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, 2024

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

Jul 17, 2024

Published in
Minds Without Borders

The Weight of My Wants

A homeless stranger erodes my happy little working-class rut

Jun 25, 2024

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

Jun 25, 2024

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, 2024

A Mutiny Of Bones

May 23, 2024

Published in
The Interstitial

God from the DVD Machine

Yearnings for ancient magic, and an unfulfilled destiny

May 15, 2024

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

May 15, 2024

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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