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Mary Pappalardo
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fiction editor at The Offing | erstwhile academic | probably thinking about books or sports | she/her
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Read "Grown Up Girls," new fiction by Kristen Sahaana Surya, at The Offing today!
theoffingmag.com/fiction/grow...
Grown Up Girls - The Offing
Fiction - The Offing Magazine
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February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Read "The Reader," new fiction by Li Sian Goh, at The Offing today!

“I can’t believe you would write about something like that, my sister said. She had called our house, it was pure luck that my mother happened to be out.”

theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-...
The Reader - The Offing
Fiction - The Offing Magazine
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January 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
been thinking a lot lately about how "let people like/enjoy things" or the idea of the "little treat" have been just absolutely transformed into "rampant consumerism is GOOD actually and if you disagree you're being MEAN" and I know it's not new but man, it is really getting me down.
December 19, 2024 at 8:12 PM
man, I wish I loved anything as much as Facebook Marketplace sellers love calling anything made of wood “mid-century modern”
December 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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I wrote about how stupid and bad everything is and how exhausting it is to live in a cycle that feels the same defector.com/the-american...
The American Nightmare Is A Rerun | Defector
The week before the election, for two nights in a row, I dreamt about the moon. The dreams were in sequence: two parts of a single story that were braided together. A single day of my life became the ...
defector.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Apropos of nothing/because I want to try to start getting back into the public facing part of the work I love doing: we just published this banger of a story at The Offing about a speculative future where Americans eat each other (no really)! theoffingmag.com/fiction/fore...
Foreigner - The Offing
Fiction - The Offing Magazine
theoffingmag.com
November 8, 2024 at 3:23 PM
bayer leverkusen? more like bayer levercruisin'!

(wanted to set the tone for this space with the dumbest soccer joke I haven't been able to get out of my head for over a week)
November 2, 2023 at 3:49 PM