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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…

3 min readAug 26, 2023

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Right now, my mother is in the hospital again.

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M. B. Moorer

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…

4 min readJul 19, 2023

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

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M. B. Moorer

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…

5 min readMay 14, 2023

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Diagnosing Mother

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M. B. Moorer

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…

6 min readJan 23, 2023

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Complex Partial

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M. B. Moorer

thought process of a narcissist

4 min readJan 11, 2023

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thought process of a narcissist

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M. B. Moorer

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…

2 min readNov 20, 2022

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The Pain Box

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M. B. Moorer

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…

3 min readAug 29, 2021

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a black and white drawing of a volcano.

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M. B. Moorer

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…

4 min readJul 17, 2021

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Her Real Name

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M. B. Moorer

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…

2 min readJun 11, 2021

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M. B. Moorer

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…

2 min readApr 18, 2021

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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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