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About Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken is a fiction editor for The Great American Lit Mag. Her work has appeared in Litro Magazine, The Baltimore Review, RipRap, Forklift Ohio, The Superstition Review, and has recently been listed as an honorable mention in the Best American Essays of 2016. Find her on Twitter @MBracken4.

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

drawing of man with guitar

Summer, 2004 We had never gone away together, never taken a vacation. My mother had always been too busy cleaning houses, changing diapers, and dating worthless men. But she made time, one summer, … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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