Allison Baggott-Rowe
Bio
I am an author pursuing my MA in Writing at Harvard. For fun, I mentor kids in chess, play competitive Irish music, and performed in Seattle with Cirque du Soleil. I also hold my MA in Psychology and delivered a TEDx talk about resiliency.
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Heiress. Runner-Up in Broken Mirror Challenge.
The mirror showed a reflection that wasn’t my own. Everyone said I had my grandmother’s green eyes. I had grown up hearing it my entire life, first from my mother when she would tuck me into bed with a bedtime story. Then from my nurse, Mabel, after mother died. Mabel had more wrinkles than my taffeta dress after the day I slipped out of the garden and skipped lessons to go swimming in the family pond. In fact, it had been Mabel who caught me and took a switch to my bottom until I promised never to roam off the estate again. But the dress was never the same. Neither was I.
By Allison Baggott-Rowe3 years ago in Fiction
If Wishes Were Horses
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. Spirals of far-flung galaxies wheeled overhead as other worlds across the vast expanse of deep, dark space went to bed. Stars peeped out from the swirling, amethyst clouds and Gareth found himself wishing upon each and every one.
By Allison Baggott-Rowe3 years ago in Fiction
