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M. B. Moorer

M. B. Moorer

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Apr 24

Haint

Published in Tin House’s Flash Fidelity (November 2017).

a high-contrast photo of a street in Pikeville curving to the right, into the foggy hills

M. B. Moorer

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Aug 26, 2023

Right now, my mother is in the hospital again.

She was apparently staying with a friend in Mississippi and verbally attacked her housekeeper before having a seizure. She also apparently…

Right now, my mother is in the hospital again.

M. B. Moorer

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Jul 19, 2023

Diagnosing Mother

I put this drawing/flowchart up on twitter. It is about my mother and her mother and the ways in which they make everything about…

A handwritten flow chart: Thought process of a narcissist. Is this about me? No > Make it about me. Yes > Make it MORE about me

M. B. Moorer

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May 14, 2023

Diagnosing Mother

Right now, my mother is somewhere between Colorado and Kentucky, driving her car, disoriented, and probably stoned. I haven’t spoken to her…

Diagnosing Mother

M. B. Moorer

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Jan 23, 2023

Complex Partial

First, you have to understand that there are not things in the world like cars and beds and dressers and you and me. There are not colors…

Complex Partial

M. B. Moorer

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Jan 11, 2023

thought process of a narcissist

thought process of a narcissist

M. B. Moorer

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Nov 20, 2022

The Pain Box

“The pain scale measures only the intensity of pain, not the duration. This may be its greatest flaw. A measure of pain, I believe…

The Pain Box

M. B. Moorer

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Aug 29, 2021

Pain Body

The pain body is similar to the body, but its geography is different, its scale. The pain places are large, loud. The pain feet (when they…

a black and white drawing of a volcano.

M. B. Moorer

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Jul 17, 2021

Her Real Name

“I saw Cottonball the other day,” you laugh a little and this is not how I want this to go, but I don’t know her real name and I don’t know…

Her Real Name

M. B. Moorer

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Jun 11, 2021

Us, Probably

I dreamed I was on a spaceship powered by a virtual black hole. Its/our speed was sometimes (but never and always quite) the speed of light…

M. B. Moorer

M. B. Moorer

Work published at Tin House, Electric Lit, Hobart, The Offing, Future Fire, The Toast. I research for Roxane Gay. | melissamoorer.com

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