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Marta Pelrine-Bacon

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Category: COVID-19

These Days Are Strange

On March 25, 2020 By mapelbaIn COVID-19, dad, death, dreams, fear, health, life, writing2 Comments

I've done almost nothing creative for days. I've either been working to switch my real life classes to online class or reading about COVID-19 or taking pictures of our dogs or looking at other people's pictures of dogs. Well, I did build lots of odd, random structures out of Legos. This is why I dreamed …

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This Monstrous Disease

On March 19, 2020 By mapelbaIn COVID-19, dad, fear, Florida, frustration, home, life, love, memories1 Comment

My dad once told me I only got headaches because I'd seen Tylenol advertised on TV. "I've never gotten a headache," he said, "and we didn't have a TV when I was a kid." To be sure, he said it like a joke. My dad says everything like a joke. I didn't see him take …

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Home Alone

On March 18, 2020 By mapelbaIn COVID-19, dad, Florida, home, imagination, life, memories, past2 Comments

I spent a lot of time alone as a child. The first reason is that I was an only child. But some only children are surrounded by people, cousins, neighborhood children. I have lots of cousins but they all lived hundreds of miles away. I saw a few of them when they came to see …

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Remembering Darkness

On March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 By mapelbaIn Bulgaria, COVID-19, death, fear, health, life, memory, past, Peace Corps2 Comments

My second October as a Peace Corps volunteer and my second month into a new relationship, I got sick. Very sick. I must've had the flu, but I never received a proper diagnosis. Bulgarian friends and coworkers said I had The Grip, which this website tells me is the flu. (I've written about this before, …

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Are we distant enough yet?

On March 16, 2020 By mapelbaIn art, Austin Kleon, COVID-19, poetry, social distancing2 Comments

How's your social distancing? It hasn't really felt too different yet here because of spring break, but next week I have to start teaching my classes online (a first for me) and my son won't go back to school for two more weeks. The dogs are happy though! They haven't been left alone for days. …

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I haven’t shared anything in a while because I haven’t been able to make anything new, and I’ve long felt I could share only some finished, best work. But I don’t have time to make enough art. So, I’m just going to share random small creative efforts of little consequence. Recently I bought a new daily planner. The cover was boring, so I added stickers and then drew some lines with a Sharpie. That’s it!
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My novel on Amazon.

My Novel

That Ghost Is Going to Cost You–my story in this anthology available on Amazon.

An Anthology
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  • Dark Tidings: Stories to Read by the Fire (an anthology I'm a part of)
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  • Passionfind with Tonia Marie Houston
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