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M. B. Moorer

Right now, my mother is in the hospital again.

She was apparently staying with a friend in Mississippi and verbally attacked her housekeeper before having a seizure. She also apparently…

Aug 26, 2023

Right now, my mother is in the hospital again.

Aug 26, 2023

Diagnosing Mother

I put this drawing/flowchart up on twitter. It is about my mother and her mother and the ways in which they make everything about…

Jul 19, 2023

A handwritten flow chart: Thought process of a narcissist. Is this about me? No > Make it about me. Yes > Make it MORE about me

Jul 19, 2023

Diagnosing Mother

Right now, my mother is somewhere between Colorado and Kentucky, driving her car, disoriented, and probably stoned. I haven’t spoken to her…

May 14, 2023

Diagnosing Mother

May 14, 2023

Complex Partial

First, you have to understand that there are not things in the world like cars and beds and dressers and you and me. There are not colors…

Jan 23, 2023

Complex Partial

Jan 23, 2023

thought process of a narcissist

Jan 11, 2023

thought process of a narcissist

Jan 11, 2023

The Pain Box

“The pain scale measures only the intensity of pain, not the duration. This may be its greatest flaw. A measure of pain, I believe…

Nov 20, 2022

The Pain Box

Nov 20, 2022

Pain Body

The pain body is similar to the body, but its geography is different, its scale. The pain places are large, loud. The pain feet (when they…

Aug 29, 2021

a black and white drawing of a volcano.

Aug 29, 2021

Her Real Name

“I saw Cottonball the other day,” you laugh a little and this is not how I want this to go, but I don’t know her real name and I don’t know…

Jul 17, 2021

Her Real Name

Jul 17, 2021

Us, Probably

I dreamed I was on a spaceship powered by a virtual black hole. Its/our speed was sometimes (but never and always quite) the speed of light…

Jun 11, 2021

Jun 11, 2021

What would a pain language look like?

The aching would be the terrible drone of wailing mourners, the white hot broken place that’s cool to the touch. The written words would…

Apr 18, 2021

Apr 18, 2021

M. B. Moorer

M. B. Moorer

Work published at Tin House, Electric Lit, Hobart, The Offing, Future Fire, The Toast. I research for Roxane Gay. | melissamoorer.com

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