“The Virus Babies”
Published on Medium.com today! “The Virus Babies” is speculative short fiction about the end of adoption. It’s a quick read. I enjoy dystopian stories. Especially when it feels like we’re…
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Published on Medium.com today! “The Virus Babies” is speculative short fiction about the end of adoption. It’s a quick read. I enjoy dystopian stories. Especially when it feels like we’re…
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What I Spent to Give My Child Up for Adoption is on Medium.com today. It’s my response to a piece in the New York Times about the high price tag…
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Here’s why I write about adoption, but it can be awkward, this birthmother/ first mother thing. The other night I attended a birthday party, and chatted with a couple I hadn’t…
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“Bridges” is a short story. It’s brand new, and it’s published here. This story is not about adoption per se. But it is about lies. And secrets. And about reunion….
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Medium.com essays Secrets and lies abound in the the world of adoption. I’m finished with secrets and lies and have been for some time. November is National Adoption Awareness Month….
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Preconceived notions The birthmother myth. What myth? You already know plenty about birthmothers, right? Or you think you do. But these women and girls who have given up their children…
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National Adoption Month “Dystopia’s Child” was originally published in LUMINA vol. XVIII. Yesterday I republished it on Medium.com. Because… November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Not just happy stories As…
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This is the world of adoption. Right here. A small writers’ retreat on a lake in Minnesota. There are five participants, not counting our retreat facilitator. Around the fire next…
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Separating parents and children Families at the border are suffering. We weep. Tear our hair. Exclaim to the heavens about the un-American practice of separating children and parents at the…
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Six children are dead There were six Hart children, all adopted from foster care. And now, though not all bodies have yet been found, authorities think all of them perished…
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Adoptees and birthparents are everywhere But sometimes it feels like a secret society, this adoption thing. I’ve been at a writer’s residency the past month at the Vermont Studio Center….
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The Handmaid’s Tale and adoption As is often the case, I’m a little late to the party. I just finished watching the last episode of the Hulu version of Margaret…
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