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Rejection and K.I.D.S. Radio

Posted on February 15, 2021February 20, 2021 by Nathalie Lawrence

I got a rejection at 4 A.M. on Saturday. I’m not taking it too, too personally, but I like to pretend the following is what happened: The editor read my piece on Friday night, and oooh, it sent them into a rage. They hated it. They hated it so much. But the other editors were…

Rejection and French Cursive

Posted on February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 by Nathalie Lawrence

Got a rejection yesterday. Made me roll my eyes, but it didn’t hurt. Progress, yes?  You know what’s weird, though? French handwriting. I grew up writing French cursive, and my teachers did their best to beat the classic rounded letters into my terrified fingers. Cursive was ridiculously important to them. Some twenty-ish years later, a…

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Redacted Poem: War and Thoughts

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 by Nathalie Lawrence

A friend and I were talking about how most of the people we went to high school and college with (including ourselves) turned out to be pretty mediocre. This sparked a search for one of my classmates to see if he ever made it in LA. A few years after college, I remember him being…

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