Blog - Rebekah Mallory

07/22/21

And Lenny Bruce is Not Afraid

“If there was anything else in the entire world I could possibly do to earn a living, I would. It’s a terrible job. It should not exist. Like Cancer. And God.” Lenny Bruce

03/11/21

How to Write a Book and Still Respect Yourself in the Morning

When you only give people tiny pieces of your life—bit by selective bit—there’s bound to be skepticism and the ever lingering thought, “Did I really know this person at all?” And I have to ask, “Does anybody really know…anyone?”

05/18/21

Into a Dreamy Hornet’s Nest

Edgar Cayce said that dreams are just your subconscious and your superconscious mind communicating things your conscious mind doesn’t know or won’t acknowledge. For me, there’s always more…

04/14/21

Brave New World, Infusions, and Vitameatavegamin

We started iron infusion treatments that lasted for two and a half weeks. I got poked, I got iron, I got breakfast, I got pampered. It was like a fucked up spa situation taking place in some parallel, sci-fi universe. It was very Brave New World…

01/14/21

How to Buck the System Artistically

It takes you being who you are at your core, seeing a need somewhere in this world that’s grossly overlooked and filling it to the brim. Find some way, using your talent for being the best you that you can be, to fill the world with what you have to offer.

02/05/21

Blood Iron(y) of a Former Jehovah’s Witness

BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS? How does an ex-J-Dub—one who wrote and just published a memoir detailing her own experiences as a born-in JW—respond to needing one of those?

TRAIN GONE: A CODA EX-JW MEMOIR

Train Gone (an expression in American Sign Language meaning “you missed out”) is the memoir of a young-girl-turned-woman in search of personal freedom. Being a Child Of Deaf Adults (CODA), Rebekah grew up not only interpreting the monotony of day-to-day life but also scriptural intimidation via the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Raised under the heavy hand of theocratic order, Rebekah rebels, is disfellowshipped, and subsequently struggles to make good choices in a new-to-her world.

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I’m Rebekah—an INFJ, a CODA (Child Of Deaf Adults) turned nationally certified interpreter, a bibliophile, logophile, writer, and doomsday cult survivor—taking up space in my own little corner of the universe. I’m drawn to dark souls, the misfits, the rebels, the misunderstood, and the hardened—not because we sharpen each other’s edges but because we soften them. My memoir, TRAIN GONE, took eleven years to complete and is now available for purchase!