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Mary Pappalardo

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fiction editor at The Offing | erstwhile academic | probably thinking about books or sports | she/her

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Grown Up Girls - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

Read "Grown Up Girls," new fiction by Kristen Sahaana Surya, at The Offing today!
theoffingmag.com/fiction/grow...

06.02.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Reader - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

Read "The Reader," new fiction by Li Sian Goh, at The Offing today!

β€œI can’t believe you would write about something like that, my sister said. She had called our house, it was pure luck that my mother happened to be out.”

theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-...

23.01.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

been thinking a lot lately about how "let people like/enjoy things" or the idea of the "little treat" have been just absolutely transformed into "rampant consumerism is GOOD actually and if you disagree you're being MEAN" and I know it's not new but man, it is really getting me down.

19.12.2024 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

man, I wish I loved anything as much as Facebook Marketplace sellers love calling anything made of wood β€œmid-century modern”

11.12.2024 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The American Nightmare Is A Rerun | Defector The week before the election, for two nights in a row, I dreamt about the moon. The dreams were in sequence: two parts of a single story that were braided together. A single day of my life became the ...

I wrote about how stupid and bad everything is and how exhausting it is to live in a cycle that feels the same defector.com/the-american...

21.11.2024 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 231    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 23
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Foreigner - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

Apropos of nothing/because I want to try to start getting back into the public facing part of the work I love doing: we just published this banger of a story at The Offing about a speculative future where Americans eat each other (no really)! theoffingmag.com/fiction/fore...

08.11.2024 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

bayer leverkusen? more like bayer levercruisin'!

(wanted to set the tone for this space with the dumbest soccer joke I haven't been able to get out of my head for over a week)

02.11.2023 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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