Poem #32
Dry Socket I’m bad at being an invalid, so I keep angel teeth in my pocket and crunch them up into dust so I can commune with the dead...
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Bailey Merlin
Bailey Merlin
- May 15, 2022
- 1 min
Publication Alert
My flash fiction piece “Wellspring Wandering” was published by Bait/Switch, which is a unique journal because it is intensely...
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Bailey Merlin
- Apr 21, 2022
- 7 min
Madonna & Child, Delayed
Her knee jiggles. Incessant anxious energy has made its home in her veins, moving through her as steadily as blood. Today, though, the...
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Bailey Merlin
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
Creative Accountability
After two straight months of no rest, I have at last arrived on the other side. All of my creative projects are still here, unfinished,...
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Bailey Merlin
- Oct 8, 2021
- 2 min
Projects in Progress, pt. 1
Every year, the master’s students I work with at Harvard give a five-minute presentation on the work they’re doing out in the field. It’s...
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Bailey Merlin
- Sep 4, 2021
- 3 min
Another Year, Another Novel
This blog has seen a lot of me. More than that, it’s seen a lot of my work. Over the last four or five years, I’ve written hundreds of...
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Bailey Merlin
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
Artistry and ADHD
Maintaining motivation is hard. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and it sort of put my whole life into perspective. The diagnosis...
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Bailey Merlin
- Jun 4, 2021
- 9 min
Aqua Vitae
This room has four walls, but it is also without walls, expanding past the fragile steel of my skull. A fragment of me looks at rows and...
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Bailey Merlin
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Poem #29
Hill of Beans The doughnut shop isn’t up to code; danger makes a delicious dish. Here, hello is flash-fried catfish. Go ahead, eat up,...
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Bailey Merlin
- Mar 4, 2021
- 4 min
Burnout
I need to write something. It needs to be 500 words. It needs to be posted today. At first, I was going to post a poem because I have...
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Bailey Merlin
- Oct 31, 2020
- 13 min
Tending the Flame
We aren’t ready. When Sebastian holds the door, and the sky blinks into blackness, we aren’t ready. When everyone is left standing in the...
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Bailey Merlin
- Sep 30, 2020
- 1 min
Poem #25
I’ve been working on some really big projects these last few months, which means less time for writing smaller pieces like short stories...
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Bailey Merlin
- Jul 31, 2020
- 1 min
Poem #24
Mudbug Mood I’m thinking about crawfish and the way they boil brackish in the high heat of June, seasoned spicy in a galvanized washtub...
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Bailey Merlin
- Dec 6, 2019
- 5 min
Postpartum
Whenever I finish a project, I feel empty. It’s not a scooped out feeling, it’s more of a “I’m not here” feeling. It’s like existing in a...
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Bailey Merlin
- Aug 17, 2018
- 1 min
Poem #14
A Love Poem for Cary Grant (the name I gave my depression) I tell my friend I think about suicide every night, the thought a pillow mint...
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Bailey Merlin
- Jul 18, 2018
- 6 min
That Satchmo Sorrow
There is smoke. It has grown thicker over the last hour, invading my lungs and stinging my eyes. I take another hit and begin to cough....
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Bailey Merlin
- Jun 30, 2017
- 1 min
Poem #4
Rosebud I felt a pinch in my palm: a rosebud sprouted from my life line. Its sepals clung together like a trembling suit of armor. I...
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Bailey Merlin
- Jun 5, 2017
- 2 min
Thesis Torture #1
After 6 months of hand-wringing, my thesis adviser finally finished my draft. And guess what? It was as bad as I thought it was going to...
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