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Ella
Ella is curled like a fawn, her legs tucked under her tawny body. She is laying in a hollow she created on the couch cushion, parallel to...
Shelly Blaisdell
8 min read
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Another Technological Innovation for your Inconvenience
Just needs a little Windex Two different men claim to have invented the automatic toilet. And it makes sense. Men's bathrooms are...
Shelly Blaisdell
4 min read
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The eel
Every morning I plant bare feet on this hardwood floor and step surely into my kitchen, into a day of scrambled eggs, giggling children,...
Shelly Blaisdell
2 min read
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If She was here
If she was here today, I'd take her to the Museum of Jurasic technology to hear the tiny wolf howling in the bell jar. Then we'd go to...
Shelly Blaisdell
1 min read
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Pondering in Pillows
Here Mommy, let me help you. When she was six, and it was September, we curled together in bed. Her hot little head tucked into the crook...
Shelly Blaisdell
3 min read
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Eraser Babies in the Road
I think this belongs to you. I flipped through outdated magazines with other solemn strangers. When the nurse called my name, I followed...
Shelly Blaisdell
4 min read
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Endings
On a 90 degree evening, seven women spread their mats on a weathered wooden platform under a tree in Temescal Canyon Park. Caroline led...
Shelly Blaisdell
5 min read
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Dinosaur Bones
I sayeth unto you this day, go forth and fool scientists, and it shall be fun. My parents said I should envy babies who die within an...
Shelly Blaisdell
9 min read
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Emmitt The Submissive Pansexual Cat
"I'm so, like, not into all the labels and stuff. Love is love. Am I right?" In 2003, my husband Ted and I were petless. Actually, we...
Shelly Blaisdell
5 min read
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Love and Salt
Sunday morning I ride my purple beach cruiser down the bike path. Even though I live near the beach, my neighborhood is just two ticks...
Shelly Blaisdell
2 min read
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Bats
Often at night, a good man will pull a woman close to him with just a bit of force. He will loom large and she will surrender to the...
Shelly Blaisdell
3 min read
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Oswaldo
I opened the restaurant at 8:30. Oswaldo was already there, mincing shallots and roasting bones. I poked my head through the serving...
Shelly Blaisdell
6 min read
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Left
You just left Left the door open for a cat to enter Left a light on leading me to water You just left Left your jacket on the chair Left...
Shelly Blaisdell
1 min read
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Essential Element
I If there were no men in the world there would be no reason to whisper no reason to learn the language no mysteries to chew on no babies...
Shelly Blaisdell
1 min read
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Dog Bones in the After Life
When I die, the package that once contained me will be left in your care. Please take it into the Angeles Mountains and tuck in under a...
Shelly Blaisdell
3 min read
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Praying with Bees
This morning, like most, I went in search of a sunny spot in which to drink coffee and pray. I walked for blocks until finding a set of...
Shelly Blaisdell
3 min read
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