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Lauren Doyle Owens
@ldoyleowens.bsky.social
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Fiction writer and bleeding heart liberal. Author of The Other Side of Everything (S&S). Mother through adoption. #woolfer

https://www.laurendoyleowens.com/
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Happy arts and crafts night to all who celebrate. #nokings
White poster board that reads “This is a love America rally.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Driving west on I-10 in Florida. I look up and see this sting of lights. Husband says it’s Starlink. It’s eerie and beautiful. We’re in the future now. I don’t think we’re ready.
Highway at night as seen through car windshield. Above the highway, in the sky, is a pin-straight string of lights.
May 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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From the Times. 😞 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Screenshot from the NYT that says: President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador wrote in a social media post that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia will return to custody following his meeting at a San Salvador hotel with Senator Van Hollen. This is the first time anyone has been able to make contact with Abrego Garcia since was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration on March 15.
April 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Get in, loser. We’re roasting tomatoes and listening to Roberta Flack.
Halfed cherry tomatoes over a slick of olive oil in a cast iron skillet.
February 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Dear mom
I know
How
Much
You
Love
Me

I’ll take it.
Interior of card with child’s writing in red ink. Ber mom I no Ho m Uch U Lov Me
February 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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CALLS WORK
February 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Nope. They’re making it sound reasonable, above board and maybe even cool.
Screenshot from the NYT that says: Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Share your snow pics! I’ve lived in a warm climate for 20 years but I still get excited for snow days. (My sister just sent me this one of her back yard outside of Baltimore.)
A blanket of snow in the foreground with a forest in the background.
January 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Good night. 👋🏻
Assembled Kid Kraft dollhouse. Three floors and an attic. Two Barbie’s on the third floor.
December 25, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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Shout out to all the parents about to open the box, to read the instructions, to find out what they’re in for tonight.
Large cardboard box in the foreground, Christmas tree in the background. The box says KidKraft Charlotte Dollhouse.
December 25, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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You make a tiny snow man.
Child shaping a tiny mound of snow.
December 24, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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When it’s Christmas Eve and you wake up to a dusting of snow.
A child looks out the window to the snowy ground below.
December 24, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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“Mommy, I can’t zip my suitcase.”

Her suitcase:
A child suitcase stuffed full of toys including two Bluey’s and a pink stuffed cow.
December 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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I am so loved.
Email inbox with birthday wishes from: Broward County public libraries, Gastro Health, Club Pilates and Yoga Connection.
December 16, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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How about now?
A drawing of the Bluey characters Frisky and Uncle Rad on the day they met with the words “Almond milk shampoo!” in quotes.
December 13, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Somewhat sick day. We’re watching TV and drawing pictures. Can you guess what we’re watching?
(Left) A crude pencil drawing of the TV character Bluey with the words “Christmas swim!” (Right) A child’s ink and crayon drawing on Bluey.
December 13, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Up until the moment I started listening to it, I thought that Colored Television was a book about the history of TV made by and for Black audiences. Soul Train, The Jefferson’s, etc. I’d like to read that if anyone knows of such a book, but this is very good too.
Audio cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna. A novel.
November 17, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Story prompt: Where are they going?
Small fluffy dog in a basket attached to a motorcycle.
November 15, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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#TheHouseOnKitchenStreet #AITA edition for #UnhingedPit, #Q, #A literary novel for fans upmarket fiction who like a good story with prose to match, including fans of Lynne Steger Strong, J. Courtney Sullivan, Ann Packer, Ann Leary, and Celeste Ng.
An AITA post for #UnhingedPit that says: Mark: When I died, I set off all the smoke detectors in the house to wake up my sister. AITA? Eugenia: I’m pretty sure my brother’s ghost is still in this house, and don’t want to sell it until I can be sure that he has passed. My family disagrees. AITA? Brendan: I am secretly acquiring properties to bulldoze the entire neighborhood in order to build new, luxury homes in place of these old pieces of shit. AITA? On top of graphic of a house with three lights on, on top of the title The House on Kitchen Street by Lauren Doyle Owens.
November 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Good morning #UnhingedPit!

#A #Q #TheHouseOnKitchenStreet
Moodboard for The House on Kitchen Street, a novel by Lauren Doyle Owens. From top left: A Virgin Mary garden statue; side two of the vinyl of Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere; black and white photo of children dressed in creepy Halloween costumes; black and white graveside photo, looking up from the grave with family looking down, the old two-dollar theater in Arbutus Maryland, Hollywood Theater, (marquee says ALL SEATS 2.00, Matinee Daily, 1 Wise Guys R, 2 Back to the Future PG); text field The House on Kitchen Street, The Corrections Meets Saints for All Occasions.
November 13, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Went to a Japanese garden today. It was as soothing as it seems.
Bridge over water in a Japanese Garden in South Florida. The sun is burning through the clouds making the trees and water glow.
November 10, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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If you’re looking for an absorbing novel to take you mind off the current political reality, I can’t recommend The God of The Woods enough. Go get lost.
Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
November 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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I read this with such dread, thinking ‘please don’t buy a gun.’ But to see that it’s for a poem!
Water color of a gun shooting flowers by Linnaea Mallette.
November 8, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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When the timeline is 24/7 Tayvis and you still don’t know who they are. (It me.)
January 29, 2024 at 3:27 PM