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Lindsay Brown is a humour writer who lives in Lethbridge, Alberta, with her husband and two children. Her work can be found on The Good Men Project, Defenestration: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to Humor, The Maine Review and The Dead Mule School.
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Dear editors at The Dead Mule, Have I ever told you how much I love the South? Probably not, because we've never met. I live all the way up here in Alberta, Canada and have so much appreciation for the Southern United States having a food background and a taste for home-cooking.
I am ten years old, and my uncle is tickling me. I hate it so much. I'm crying but also laughing because this is the thing I do when I am uncomfortable. I don't know why or how this came to be, but...
Dear (so-called) friends and family on my various social media networks, I wasn't going to write this letter but after some consideration felt that it had to be said. After all, here I am, trying my best to get through these challenging times, and what am I faced with?
We eat well. There is duck (freezer burned) thawing in the sink. I found it in the discount bin at the No Frills market. My husband, James, is making Duck A l'Orange for dinner. We stand side by side in our galley way kitchen, bodies close as we cook for our ...
Dec 20th, 2019 | By Defenestration | Category:Poetry Sixteen dollars; the amount of money I spent on shampoo and conditioner last week. It was that charcoal kind that's meant for damaged hair. Sixteen dollars is too much money to spend on hair care products, my husband says.
Maybe it started on June 28th, 2019. That's when the kids began their first day of summer holidays. Anticipation melted off of them like an ice cream cone left for dead on a hot summer sidewalk. My husband, Jamie, was smack dab in the middle of his railroad conductor training.