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August 2025

It’s Like How Icarus Loved Apollo
Given up on the chance of a fairytale. A memoir by Maia Brown-Jackson
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The House
Don't talk to the house like that. Fiction by Maia Brown-Jackson. The girl seemed young. At least, the house thought she was young. It was hard to tell…
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Esther 4:14
You were born for such a time as this: a poem | | Teaser on a new post about rejections (literally including a bunch I've received) | | Question for You…
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Okay so I just don't understand sexual harrassment (also, poetry!) (and more!)
And I hate not understanding things | | (also, how to help women exist in this world without telling us to change our behavior) (also also, never send…
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The rare opportunity to watch me perform at a poetry reading (if you don't live near me)
It wasn't my best; it wasn't my worst; it is the one I have on tape
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My works published by other substacks: all in one place
Because sometimes they appear on my page, and sometimes they don't; thus, here they all are, with excerpts and links
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On surviving a genocide one summer morning: the experience of a Yazidi survivor of ISIS (and poetry)
If you don't read anything else by me, read this. This matters.
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