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		<title>See Kirie&#8217;s New Artist Chicken Newsletter at Substack</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[See Kirie&#8217;s Artist Chicken Newsletter at kirie.pedersen.substack.com. Or, sign up for updates on the About Me page.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nightwalking in On The Seawall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Rose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems I spent my childhood walking at night, hiding in ditches, calming wandering dogs. Of course, that was only part of my childhood, the night half, the hidden half ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Summer of Fun in The Short Story Project</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Rose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 02:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sarah and George claimed I’d gone crazy. I suspected I’d gone sane. Though of course, nothing is ever as easy as that.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brianna&#8217;s Story in Kaleidoscope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 01:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In dreams, I always saw myself walking. Get up. Fall down. Get up, fall
down.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shadow Family in New Orleans Review</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We were the fun family. All the kids wanted to play at our house. Working class and artist poor, we always found room for guests. Most weekends, using battered equipment, we hiked, camped, swam, or cross-country skied. We shared library books, made up plays, and sang in choirs and around the campfire. Every evening, we cooked as a team and shared sit-down meals. No matter how young, everyone talked about their day or discussed some current event. &#160;Yet beginning in grade school, my inner refrain was I want to die. It was true I had what others envied, a family where kids were cherished and listened to. Yet beneath that lurked the shadow family I tried to heal on my own. Read the rest of Kirie&#8217;s story Shadow Family in New Orleans Review. About New Orleans Review A journal of contemporary literature and culture,&#160;New Orleans Review&#160;is a publication of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and&#160;is partially funded by the Kendall Michelle Daigle Memorial Endowment for English. Since its founding in 1968, the journal has published an eclectic variety of work by established and emerging writers, including: Walker Percy, Pablo Neruda, Ellen Gilchrist, Nelson Algren, Hunter S. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two spawning events at Pulali attract marine biologists and filmmakers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plainfin midshipman and Pacific Herring attract filmmakers and biologists to our world.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kirie in The Rumpus: Salve Caput</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Rose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rumpus. Memoir Monday]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wished I knew a word for the green of moss right when it starts up freshly in spring. I would lie down on it and roll around. I would pray to it. I would sing its name.]]></description>
		
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		<title>How I Spend My Days</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I write about nature, inspiration, and literature in Cynthia Newberry Martin's blog.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Finding Pulali</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2022 16:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dabob Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Pedersen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“We live in a beautiful, sentient universe that yearns for you to tell the truth about it.”  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Pierce of Angels in Cleaver</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirie Pedersen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cleaver Magazine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The male plot line in so many novels and stories: I saw her. She wanted me. I fucked her. She loved it. My plot line: when walking in the forest or writing, I feel the best or almost the best that I ever feel. Time vanishes. Writing is anesthesia. The forest heals. Read A Pierce of Angels by Kirie Pedersen in Cleaver]]></description>
		
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