Mary Pappalardo

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...

The Reader - The Offing Fiction - The Offing Magazine

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

“I 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-...

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.

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

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...

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...

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)