Meghan Pipe

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  • Today’s story-related Google search

    I was looking for evidence of a method of trapping alligators that my grandma once described having seen in her condo neighborhood (it involved animal control employees dangling a raw chicken from a hook) and began by Googling, “animal control catch alligator.” And this is what Google spat back:   Alas, I am left with…

  • Residency views

    At Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts:

  • I’m teaching at the Loft this summer!

    Check it out: Special Stuff: Writing Objects in Fiction

  • Six acts in the airport

    I. I tipped back the greater portion of a glass of Sauvignon Blanc at 3:29, a minute before my flight was to board. I closed my book. I smiled. To travel, to be a woman, to be a woman traveling: I am grateful. II. 3:32, no queue at gate H5. Flight delayed. I wish I’d…

  • No snow in Minnesota

    I haven’t been able to shake this deep anticipation of snow, even though the blizzard hitting New York is happening 1,000 miles from here. All day I’ve been prying apart the blinds, watching for snow, but the lawn is still patched with brown grass and soggy leaves. I keep looking for the cat. I keep forgetting…

  • Today’s story-related Google searches

    … yielded information on: grosgrain ribbon scoliosis obfuscating the Homeland Security Advisory System fallen vs. felled (a fallen tree does so on its own; a felled tree has been cut down intentionally) And now I am Googling things like “Mad Men Season 7” and “adjusting brake pads on bike,” which means I have hit the…

  • Back out west

    It has been a very long hiatus. Like, years. Or a year and a month, actually. It wasn’t because I didn’t have anything to write about; I wrote a lot of things, actually, but most of those things are fiction drafts that continue to live in a folder on my computer in very messy form.…