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Selected as the nonfiction winner of the Carve Magazine 2019 Prose & Poetry Contest, selected by Benjamin Busch.
This piece was crafted with excerpts from an upcoming memoir.
The Caretakers
Auntie always told him never to leave home. She warned him that no good would come of it. He knew that outside was off limits to little boys, but his curiosity was insatiable.
He should have listened, because now he’s lost. He’s scared, and alone. More important, he’s probably going to die.
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This piece is an excerpt from a larger memoir project that deals with toxic masculinity called, Cleft
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Don takes a swig of rum and surveys his creation. He calls it the Eagle’s Nest—outfitted with state-of-the-art surveillance technology. From this central location he can monitor every nook and cranny of his coveted 10,000 square feet and surrounding 200 acres.
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