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Articles by
Audrey Burges
Audrey Burges writes in Richmond, Virginia. Her debut novel, The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone, is forthcoming in 2023 from Berkley/PRH, and her work also appears or is forthcoming in Hobart Pulp, Pithead Chapel, Cease, Cows, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, and other outlets.
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May 5, 2022Talking Heads Lyrics, or Words My Kid Strings Together at Bedtime Instead of Falling Asleep at a Reasonable Hour?
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March 30, 2022I’m Vincent Van Gogh, and I Painted That Way Because I Knew It Would Look Really Sweet on a Mousepad
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February 11, 2022I’m Beginning to Think You Don’t Care About the Forty-Seven Valentines I Need to Take to School Tomorrow
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July 8, 2021Are You Vacationing with Children or Starring in a Gripping Medical Drama?
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May 7, 2021My Mother’s Day Gift to Myself Is This Dissociative Episode in Costco
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February 24, 2021Are You Preparing Dinner for Children, or Starring in a Post-Apocalyptic Drama?
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December 18, 2020Are You Baking Cookies with Children or Starring in a Gritty Crime Procedural?
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November 20, 2020Welcome to Your At-Home High-Intensity Interval Toddler Class
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September 29, 2020On the Seventh Day, God Created Parenting, and Then Parenting Created Coffee
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August 11, 2020Early Agent Feedback for Wutherton: An Emily Brontë Musical
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July 21, 2020Female Character Written by Hemingway or My New Houseplant?
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March 23, 2020Things You Shout At Colleagues Over Zoom, or Shout At Your Children While Shouting At Colleagues Over Zoom?
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May 13, 2022Ten Possibilities the Applebee’s Waitress Considers Before It Occurs to Her the Women in Booth Fourteen Might Be a Couple with Two Children
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May 18, 2022A Passenger’s One-Star Review of the Trolley Ride from the Trolley Problem
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May 13, 2022A Modest Proposal for Solving the Baby Formula Shortage
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