Margaret R Kelly

Tag: mental-health

  • Living the Delusion as a Writer

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    I have just submitted three short stories to yet another competition. This one required an entry fee for each story, so I limited myself. We hear the phrases all the time: Set realistic goals, don’t get ahead of yourself, write what you know.  On a bigger scale we sometimes hear: Live The Dream. For a writer, or those who would…

  • There ain’t no cure for the Summertime Blues

    There ain’t no cure for the Summertime Blues

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    I hate the story summer tells, and the way I never seem to belong in it. The time it represents. Those months always seem to come, and linger, for me. They don’t just pass through like any other part of the year; they arrive with a weight, like they know something I don’t, like they’ve…