Aubrey Rebecca

Joined December 2022

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My writing lives in the liminal spaces where memoir meets myth, where contradictions—grief/joy, addiction/love, beauty/ruin—tangle together. A Sagittarius, I am always exploring, searching for the story beneath the story. IG: @tapestryofink

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A Fragment of Mother. Runner-Up in This Is How I Remember It Challenge.
I do not remember. I do not remember her. - The sound of my name in her mouth, did it sound sweet or salty? -
By Aubrey Rebecca6 months ago in Poets
Before Sunrise. Content Warning.
It was too soon, and I wasn’t ready. But life doesn’t care if you are ready, and on that cold winter evening, while the sunset at 4:30 pm, it began.
By Aubrey Rebecca7 months ago in Fiction
Divorce and Potato Salad. Honorable Mention in The Summer That Wasn’t Challenge.
The last ten summers of my life had been a whirlwind of daughter-centric activity: day trips to the New Jersey beaches, parks, neighborhood cookouts. I hosted plenty myself—tables of potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans that simmered all day. The three girls and I made lemonade and drank it by the pitcher, giggling with the sugar rush. A few times, when my husband was willing to splurge, we even rented a boat. I loved summer—especially because it was my namesake.
By Aubrey Rebecca7 months ago in Fiction
How To Lose Yourself. Content Warning.
I am only now learning how to come back, join the world of the living— the one you claim you need to escape. I can help you.
By Aubrey Rebecca7 months ago in Poets