"Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public"

-Paulo Coehlo

Some of my work

Mara Erdman Mara Erdman

no tiger

Upcoming in The Ex-Puritan

A story on the parasympathetic nervous system, fantasy smut, and missed chances.

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Mara Erdman Mara Erdman

alone, together

From Litbreak Magazine
a story about death, Roombas, and the words we don’t know until we know.

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Mara Erdman Mara Erdman

A Car Nation

From Vestal Review

On flowers and plastic and parents and birth and bugs and broken things that come back together

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Mara Erdman Mara Erdman

Animal Acids

From The Writer

flash fiction considering burials, green things, and swallowing soil to fill yourself up

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Mara Erdman Mara Erdman

I Hear You

From Dark Winter Lit

a short story on time, firearms, what’s inside our ears, and what’s between us.

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