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I have a recurring nightmare my mother is alive

Bringing Up the Dead

Ariel Gore
Mar 21, 2023
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By Ariel Gore

She never died.

I've made a terrible mistake.

I have to call my editor.

The End of Eve

“We can't publish the book.”

I don't know how I could have made such a wild mistake.

I mean, she looked dead.

I signed the papers. I let the man from the cut-rate crematorium in Albuquerque take her body away.

But in the dream, she isn't dead.

And in the dream, sh…

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Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction including the experimental memoir We Were Witches (The Feminist Press) and the lit star guide The Wayward Writer (Microcosm Publishing)
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