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Maggie Critchley
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author, rebel, probably not a cylon

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Maggie Critchley @maggstheradwrites.bsky.social · Nov 17

My name is Maggie and it's the end of the world so we might as well make art.  I'm an author, check out Maelstrom wherever you get your books, I am currently writing a novella as well as polishing book two in my Southwest Faerie Chronicles so, send coffee & tacos and tell your dog I said hi!
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Maggie Critchley (@maggstheradwrites)
I interviewed with Bold Journey and it was a dream. Read below and chime in, are you a Baggins or a Took? https://boldjourney.com/meet-maggie-critchley/
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Welcome to the Black (Sheep) Parade
At the beginning of the year, I messed up.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Chapter Twenty Three
Getting picked up from recovery by your family after spending fifty-seven days rewiring your brain and learning how to human is discovering your heart still has room to grow.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Chapter Twenty Two : Glitter Bomb
Mary Anne,
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September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Chapter Twenty One : Recovery
Dear Dad,
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September 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Chapter Twenty : Caught Slippin
The knot came free the moment my foot slipped from the chair.
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August 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Chapter Nineteen: Maybe
Squelch.
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Chapter Eighteen : PSA
When your Dad gives you a cellphone to use in case of emergencies, do not text your boyfriend during the day.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Chapter Seventeen : Patriarchy
Dad’s house perpetually smelled like French toast.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Keep Your Enemies Close
They turned the house inside out looking for what could have compelled a loving wife and mother to walk into a fire.
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July 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Matricide is a Helluva Drug
When you murder your Mother, you get to ride with the detective to the station.
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July 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Chapter Fourteen
The cops would wake Jordan up soon enough with their clodhopping around the house so I figured I should get the dogs in quietly. Plus, I needed to stage my happening upon Mother’s body and it needed t...
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istg writing a book is just trying to outrun the certainty your book sucks like DRAFT FASTER DON'T LET THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME CATCH YOU
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Chapter Thirteen
Mother and Kelly had a fight.
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Mother of an Interlude
I have been scared my entire life.
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June 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Chapter Twelve
The following transcript of a 911 call placed on October 13th, 2001 at approximately 23:47 hours, was obtained and is submitted into evidence by PCSO Detective Smith, badge 10364
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Chapter Eleven
Taking responsibility for Jordan was something I took very seriously, though no ten year old should be responsible for another person.
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Welcome to the Black (Sheep) Parade
At the beginning of the year, I messed up.
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Chapter Ten
“They don’t make them anymore so, I’m not sure why you have access to quaaludes and I don’t want to know, but they’re a really good way to end up dead, so don’t mess with them.” Officer Rogers caught ...
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Chapter Nine
One of the many perks of growing up in a small town in the nineties is the freedom that comes along with it.
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Chapter Eight
To Whom it may concern,
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Chapter Seven
Seven is as good an age as any to feel the burn of salt in a wound.
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Chapter Five
When your Mother doesn’t want to be a mother and she doesn’t want your Father to be a father, the tension of interpersonal gymnastics flips its way right into your bones from the time you’re still par...
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Chapter Four
Born in the middle of an Arizona summer, in the middle of the 80s, destined to be a middle child from my beginning.
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