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@maboswell.bsky.social
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up late at night and probably crying | work in BULL, X-R-A-Y, Taco Bell Quarterly V6, JMWW, Hobart | CNF editor at The Good Life Review

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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Just made a folder in my Google Drive called, “Things I Wrote That I Didn’t Realize Were Good At The Time”
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My short story "Good Morning Person" was recently published in BULL, and this acceptance was super cool, esp after two very rough writing years. Editor Ben had such nice things to say about my story. I hope you like it, too
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Thanks for sharing!
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Check out my new substack post in which I overthink endings
maboswell.substack.com
how to end it
Thoughts on the process of wrapping up a piece
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Thanks Patrick!
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Sometimes all we’re left with in life is the comfort of a nonjudgmental pancake. Thanks to Jenn and Chris and the @xraylitmag.bsky.social team for publishing my tiny fiction piece
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I joined The Good Life Review nonfiction team in March, and I'm excited to report that we were named one of the Best Nonfiction Lit Mags of 2024 by the Chill Subs community. Thrilled and grateful for the support- TGLR is so deserving of recognition. (Also, submissions are open through 1-21!)
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The junk folder is so endlessly fascinating, like how did the Clif Bars class action lawsuit find me
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I’m not trying to brag, but the next date for writing group with @jesslovett.bsky.social and @ashleyespinoza.bsky.social was initiated through psychic dream connection
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Saw a little dog wearing little dog shoes today so that was nice
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The corporations will not protect you tacobellquarterly.org/floating-bab...
tacobellquarterly.org
Floating Baby Day
I started out the morning feeling confident in my new floral jumpsuit, and by the end of the day, I was naked and giving birth. Right here on Angela’s carpet. I’m glad I was birthing in her office …
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’m glad you enjoyed it
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Really trying to embrace the skibidi today
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I think Britney Spears should take me along on one of her little trips
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
One thing I try to do when I engage with the people in my life is to make sure they know I value them and uplift them for who they are, not for the value they provide to me. I want to be even better at doing that, but honestly, it's my number one goal of friendship and relationships
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I can't work unless my nails are done
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is great! I love Rachel too!
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
It’s pretty out there, but maybe Lapvona?
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
you can tell a lot about a person by how they decorate a sugar cookie
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
my panera lemonade joke has almost been perfected but twitter is down
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
my kid has played simple gifts on the trumpet at least 64 times this week, which is fine, but i just really needed to tell someone
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
the old navy website makes my macbook fan run so fast and so hard
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
been drinking. which combo should I get
a photo of 17 different menu items at an almost 24-hour Mexican restaurant
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
oooh, yes, that’s a good one! those western aesthetic fetishization accounts are all trying to lure people in that same direction
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
glorification of tradwife homesteading tiktok
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
one of my work friends doesn’t have kids or dogs so i always ask “how’s your condo?”
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
tammy is such a funny name to me but I always love people named tammy
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
I love it when music creates a conflicting vibe in a space! I will never forget sitting in the doctors office a few years back while Eric Clapton’s Cocaine was playing lol
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
sounds about right
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
a free logoed tote you say? why yes I would thank you for asking
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
I only allowed it because he had a well-groomed hipster mustache and gentle eyes. But I didn’t return his call
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Dude, one of them even called me at work twice, like on my landline and everything lol
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
i would like to know how some of these people on linkedin even find me
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
update: a different coworker broke the toaster attempting to release branded lapel pin that was stuck in the heating element. Bagel Time has been postponed until further notice
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Oh that is great!! I’m definitely jotting that down on a post-it and sticking it on my post-it holder (my Mac)
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Yes. Every day I curse all the tech in my life, too many systems, passwords, interfaces. I think it’s making life worse, or at least more complicated
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
The phrase “things are chaotic” was mentioned several times today by my boss, and I wasn’t sure if should feel concerned or relieved that someone was finally acknowledging the general vibe
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
whoa
lithub.com
Read 20 Famous Authors’ Very First Published Short Stories
Sometimes it feels as though our favorite writers burst from the womb fully-formed, slinging wisdom and polished drafts from the crib. But even the most legendary of writers had to start somewhere—�...
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
my kid’s trying to watch the five nights at freddy’s movie and I keep asking “but what about showbiz pizza?” just to be annoying
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
this is my top 10
a screenshot of a playlist
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
what is your most listened to song?
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Hi!
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
every day one of my coworkers gets out our office toaster and makes herself a cute lil mini bagel with cream cheese, and I get so irrationally excited by this act she now calls it Bagel Time and yells at me that she’s making her bagel so I can yell back “omg, yay!!!”
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
I’ve had glasses since second grade, and I used to lick them clean as a kid. But now I wonder exactly when I stopped doing it! Hopefully, it was a very long time ago haha
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MAB @maboswell.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
girlies be like “build a fall outfit with me!” and they just half tuck their dad’s henley into some leggings and coyly slip on a pair of mules while never breaking eye contact
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