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I've Never Had Children and Here's Why
This little chick knew what was up I don’t think it was ever part of my contract to have babies of my own. From a very young age (I’m talking single digits) I knew I was not put on this earth to bear children. It was not part of my plan. Since society expects that women bear children, I entertained the idea a time or two—dreamed of nursery themes, names, how I’d look eight months pregnant wearing my Nirvana tee under denim overalls—but my first husband didn’t want to share h
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What I Meant to Say
Writer Dear, writing practice is all about the messy mind, the naked thoughts that surface come 3 a.m...
Rebekah Mallory
Nov 93 min read
Milk Carton Chicanery
In a secret cobwebbed part of her, she knew what he wanted from her was youth, innocence...
Rebekah Mallory
Oct 156 min read
The Future Story
Young Howie writes a story even he doesn't understand...
Rebekah Mallory
Aug 44 min read
Watering Plants I Might Kill
Life changed, my worldview shifted, and a very different picture took shape as bigger questions surfaced.
Rebekah Mallory
Jul 153 min read
My Summer Vacation
So, how does a writer write? I don’t know if there’s a way to do it with any level of sanity no matter how you broach it. I can share what worked and what didn't work.
Rebekah Mallory
Jul 133 min read
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 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
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
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
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 stronger in my pre-pubescent years. They’re not like the voices those with schizophrenia hear. I’m not being told cut off my ear like Van Gogh or solve complex math equations for the U.S government like John Nash. My voices are telling me to do something else entirely. The voices started out pretty faint and far away, like a soft echo dancin
Rebekah Mallory
Dec 2, 20213 min read
How to Buck the System
History is chock-full of people who in some way have bucked the system. I always felt akin to these brave souls. Then again, “bucking the...
Rebekah Mallory
Feb 13, 20214 min read
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