TRAIN GONE

Winner of the IPPY Award for

Best Non-Fiction Series in 2023

Train Gone (an expression in American Sign Language meaning “you missed out”) is the story of a young CODA (Child Of Deaf Adults) who grew up interpreting scriptural instruction at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses for her Deaf parents. At the inexperienced age of sixteen, Rebekah rebels, gets disfellowshipped from the Kingdom Hall, and immediately loses her family and footing. She then finds herself in therapy, sifting through sharp pieces of her life while straddling both the Deaf and hearing world. All in a desperate attempt to make sense of her own quotidian existence.

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Winner of the IPPY Award for

Best Non-Fiction Series in 2023

In Mirrors Strike Back, Mallory—still wrestling with the pain of losing her family to the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses and her own ground—embarks on a journey across country to unlearn all she has learned, dispelling deep-seated beliefs she's had about herself. Along her travels, she collides with reflections of her own soul via undeserved betrayal, cultish encounters, racy exchanges, a spectral twist of fate, loss, romantic love, familial love, and finally: unexpected self-love from a spirited heart gifted with superhuman strength.

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I'm Not Okay

I want my childhood back. I want to feel safe. To disappear inside a book or TV show and not worry over the state of the country or the...

Rebekah Mallory

Feb 213 min read

I Am Not a New Mexican Sky

...That is not what I do. I am not a soft sunset, kissing the mountain peaks. I am not a guiding star high atop the clouds, lighting the...

Rebekah Mallory

Dec 16, 20243 min read

Why I Can't Write White Hot

I don't even really understand anything I've done until I've done it. What's more I can't see its value until I write about it.

Rebekah Mallory

Dec 5, 20244 min read

Little Woodsy Kid

I felt like I’d duped myself; sold my lake cottage to live in a camper for an undetermined amount of time.

Rebekah Mallory

Nov 15, 20244 min read

How One Religion is Trying to Wiggle Their Way Out of a Tough Spot

My path is one of cosmic wonder, weaving in between supernovas and ultraterrestrial beings I've yet to meet.

Rebekah Mallory

Apr 1, 20245 min read

A Year Without...Again

After a year of not drinking and being okay with it, I gave myself what I'd been looking for: an excuse.

Rebekah Mallory

Mar 14, 20244 min read

Contracting with the Soul

Sacred Contracts (or karmic relationships between souls) are fixed before birth. Souls enter into agreements to aid one another’s growth.

Rebekah Mallory

Jan 25, 20244 min read

Crossing Over Into Existential Crisis

Sorrow and grief are simply misplaced love with no where to go, and I'm kicking myself for not showing love more when John was here.

Rebekah Mallory

Oct 19, 20234 min read

What Was Aaron Spelling's MacGuffin?

When we do or create something that lifts our spirits, puffs our chest, and others recognize and respond to it, it's an energy exchange.

Rebekah Mallory

Aug 3, 20233 min read

Rivka’s Epiphany

The bottle had not kept her company like she'd told herself it had, and there were plenty of times she'd convinced herself it did just that.

Rebekah Mallory

Apr 12, 20234 min read

My Father—God of Dinosaurs and Martians

If writers are lucky, their writing will be the seance, their keystrokes—the ouija board.

Rebekah Mallory

Jan 27, 20232 min read

Top Ten of 2022

"We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day." ~Mary Shelley

Rebekah Mallory

Dec 16, 20224 min read

The Wind Don’t Talk

A shift's a-comin'. They don't know it yet but it's comin'. A soft breeze tickles ears of corn out yonder; they sway, gently rockin'...

Rebekah Mallory

Sep 27, 20221 min read

To Traditionally Publish or Not to Traditionally Publish

Why did I decide to ditch the traditional publishing route? Because I did so, does that mean I’m just “playing writer”?

Rebekah Mallory

Jul 8, 20225 min read

I'LL DIE IF I DON'T

Ray Bradbury: "To NOT write, for many of us, is to die." Stephen King: "You don't do it for the money. You do it because it saves you."

Rebekah Mallory

Jun 8, 20224 min read

THE BORN DAY I TURNED 45

I want to find another realm and live there; find Valentine Michael Smith, learn the wonders of Mars, float through mysterious galaxies...

Rebekah Mallory

Jun 8, 20225 min read

WHEN MIRRORS STRIKE BACK

I HADN’T PLANNED on writing a sequel, or anything much after getting my memoir, Train Gone, out of my system. But something happened....

Rebekah Mallory

May 5, 20223 min read

WHEN I HEAR THE VOICES

I’m not really sure when it started. Maybe twelve? Thirteen? Probably younger than that but I specifically remember that the voices grew...

Rebekah Mallory

Dec 2, 20214 min read

IT DIDN’T START WITH ME

Seventeen weeks post hysterectomy, sixty days sober. Lots of crazy shit has been running through my mind. I feel like I’m trying to cross...

Rebekah Mallory

Sep 19, 20214 min read

HOW TO WRITE A BOOK AND STILL RESPECT YOURSELF IN THE MORNING

Some folks might think you’re a liar, perhaps omitting (or adding) parts to your story. Or, maybe, they say you’re attention-seeking....

Rebekah Mallory

Mar 20, 20215 min read

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