Mary Farnstrom, The Unhinged Alaskan
Bio
A freelance writer and illustrator for the last decade, Mary focuses on speculative fiction and horror at her current contract position with Puzzle Box Horror.
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A Glimpse Into My Writing Space
An impossible convergence of the tidy and the disheveled, I sit in an almost ironically retro office chair from the 70s—I don’t want to admit it, but this hideous faded tiger-orange cushion-covered chair that I scavenged from the transfer site has grown on me.
By Mary Farnstrom, The Unhinged Alaskan5 years ago in Journal
Bright Blue Eyes
I remember being a sapling or maybe several over the years that I’ve seen—springs, summers, falls, and winters—I’ve seen them all, but I never felt regarded with such majesty as when he found me in the forest and felled me by hand. He milled me from handsome Lodgepole Pine trees and constructed my modest, yet handsome framework during the summers of his own autumnal years, but year after year he grew smaller and slower until eventually, he was too tired to continue on. That was the year he covered me with tarps for good, where I sat neglected and unfinished through each of the seasons, for what seemed to be years.
By Mary Farnstrom, The Unhinged Alaskan5 years ago in Humans
