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A free monthly essay on life, writing, reading, self-obsession, self-loathing, self-improvement, past selves, future selves, parenting, and time.

About Helen Chandler

I'm a writer from Ireland living in Charlottesville, Virginia. My stories, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. I'm at work on a book about aunts.

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