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Where She Goes, I Go

A woman on the verge of disappearing and the dog who refuses to let her do it alone move together through the slow wreckage of burnout. What emerges is a tender, clear-eyed story about love without language and the courage to go.

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literary fiction Missy Matchstick literary fiction Missy Matchstick

Stick With Me, Please

When a series of anonymous notes begins appearing across Los Angeles, each one reaches someone at the exact moment they are about to give up. What unfolds is not a miracle, but something smaller and more human—the possibility that even unseen, we are still holding each other in place.

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Writing The California Fever Dream

 

“Outside, the sky began changing colors like it was unsure which version of the sunset to run. A Joshua Tree caught fire, silently. Beautifully. And then reassembled itself in reverse.”

Static at the edge of 29 Palms

“She could taste the day. Hot pennies. Sunscreen. The faint chemical sweetness of melted plastic… She told herself this was normal. California normal. A climate that didn’t ask permission.”

What California Makes

“The heat was biblical and immediate. By the time she had crossed the wash and climbed the low rise beyond it, her shirt was sticking to her back and her thoughts had gone strangely bright around the edges.”

Roofline Blonde