Bedsheets This morning the sheets called to me, loud and persistent, in the pitch the puppy uses when he needs…
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E.M. Mariani holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. "The Laundry Chronicles" is her second easy in Cutleaf—her first, "Mothers' Teeth" was published in March 2022.
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Mothers’ Teeth
For reasons I still don’t know, Mrs. Lawson took a liking to me when I was around thirteen.