Maureen Langloss
@maureenlangloss.bsky.social
Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Harvard Review | Wigleaf | http://maureenlangloss.com/
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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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I have new work in Wigleaf. Deepest thanks to Scott Garson and the @wigleaf.bsky.social team for holding my story with such care. I wrote this piece with love for a friend and I'd be so honored if you could read it.
Run for your lives!
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Run for your lives!
Here, have some cardinal-in-autumn vibes.
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Here, have some cardinal-in-autumn vibes.
One of my very favorite moments in Miriam Toews’s A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE. To sit and hold the baby was enough. Indeed, it was everything. As we all run around this holiday season, I want to keep this passage in mind. Doing just what we can is a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
One of my very favorite moments in Miriam Toews’s A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE. To sit and hold the baby was enough. Indeed, it was everything. As we all run around this holiday season, I want to keep this passage in mind. Doing just what we can is a lot.
14yo texting from school to ask if I can teach her how to make a resume so she can apply for a job with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
14yo texting from school to ask if I can teach her how to make a resume so she can apply for a job with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Took a bronchitis-recovery walk tonight and overheard so many strangers talking about pie! It’s like pie is all New York can think about right now! One woman said she has the absolute best recipe, and I totally believe her. Another insisted, “I’m not making any pies. We can just get them there.” 🥧
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Took a bronchitis-recovery walk tonight and overheard so many strangers talking about pie! It’s like pie is all New York can think about right now! One woman said she has the absolute best recipe, and I totally believe her. Another insisted, “I’m not making any pies. We can just get them there.” 🥧
I’m tickled to see Gingko trees having a peak fall yellow moment, but also lit up below with winter holiday lights round their trunks. The juxtaposition of seasons feels kind of “off,” but that’s exactly why I dig it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I’m tickled to see Gingko trees having a peak fall yellow moment, but also lit up below with winter holiday lights round their trunks. The juxtaposition of seasons feels kind of “off,” but that’s exactly why I dig it.
When your kid who is at the library texts you at home to find out what the library WiFi code is. So you call the library front desk for her so she doesn’t have to walk back down five flights to ask herself. 😂
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When your kid who is at the library texts you at home to find out what the library WiFi code is. So you call the library front desk for her so she doesn’t have to walk back down five flights to ask herself. 😂
I put some more pictures and a bit of video from the Patti Smith concert at the Beacon last night on my Instagram. So relieved I was well enough to get there in my N95 after a very sick week. Now feeling the afterglow of this incredible moment.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I put some more pictures and a bit of video from the Patti Smith concert at the Beacon last night on my Instagram. So relieved I was well enough to get there in my N95 after a very sick week. Now feeling the afterglow of this incredible moment.
It really is. If you haven't read it, you really should.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It really is. If you haven't read it, you really should.
Update: I am writing yet another very weird very long story. Steroids are lifting my work out of reality again. No devil this time—but spooky children. These children know stuff old people don’t. I’m trying to figure out what they know but not sure I can. It’s all a bit perplexing.
The last time I was on steroids, sick as a dog, I couldn't sleep so I got up & wild-wrote all night. The outcome was a really long, 3-part story about the devil. The beast's in my collection which I hope you get to read someday. Anyway, I feel that same mood building & it's just day 1 on these roids
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Update: I am writing yet another very weird very long story. Steroids are lifting my work out of reality again. No devil this time—but spooky children. These children know stuff old people don’t. I’m trying to figure out what they know but not sure I can. It’s all a bit perplexing.
Heartbreaking piece by Tatiana Schlossberg. Gorgeous truth about nurses:
“I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over.”
A Battle with My Blood www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over.”
A Battle with My Blood www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Heartbreaking piece by Tatiana Schlossberg. Gorgeous truth about nurses:
“I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over.”
A Battle with My Blood www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over.”
A Battle with My Blood www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
This is so real.
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is so real.
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Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.
It’s nice to get a tiny piece of good news when you’re sick and grumpy. Grateful to American Short Fiction. Sending congratulations to the winners. This story is in my collection which I hope to share someday.
![Dear Maureen Langloss,
Thank you for submitting "[redacted]" to The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize. While your submission did not make the final short list, it was selected for a list of contest semi-finalists. Your work stood out as one of our strongest submissions, and we hope you will submit to us again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yzu5lus5ff7wumrqrmzsllnz/bafkreihwnma2psubikasnqk4sylxfmoi67fiolzyd4u2ry4ry4wovupo3a@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It’s nice to get a tiny piece of good news when you’re sick and grumpy. Grateful to American Short Fiction. Sending congratulations to the winners. This story is in my collection which I hope to share someday.
Still miserable because bronchitis, but at least there’s Miriam Toews to help me ponder the weird sadness and beauty of life.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Still miserable because bronchitis, but at least there’s Miriam Toews to help me ponder the weird sadness and beauty of life.
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hello friends, Romans, countrymen, I am back in Lightspeed with a new story about unhinged teenage girls www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl - Lightspeed Magazine
We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement. Her mom was one of those chill Asian moms who liked having an artsy-fartsy daughter she could brag about at Bible study. She was already pushing ...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
hello friends, Romans, countrymen, I am back in Lightspeed with a new story about unhinged teenage girls www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-...
I forgot to update you that I read this book in 24 hours. Believe the hype. It's excellent. So refreshing to read a novel from the point of view of a woman in her 70s. The combination of wisdom and regret reminded me so much of conversations I had with my mom in her final years. Highly recommend.
I’m in bed with a very unpleasant cold. But this is a lovely book to read when sick:
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I forgot to update you that I read this book in 24 hours. Believe the hype. It's excellent. So refreshing to read a novel from the point of view of a woman in her 70s. The combination of wisdom and regret reminded me so much of conversations I had with my mom in her final years. Highly recommend.
You all, every time I laugh, it triggers a coughing fit. I never realized how much I laugh. I laugh a lot. I'm going to avoid all the funny things today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You all, every time I laugh, it triggers a coughing fit. I never realized how much I laugh. I laugh a lot. I'm going to avoid all the funny things today.
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The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.
No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.
The last time I was on steroids, sick as a dog, I couldn't sleep so I got up & wild-wrote all night. The outcome was a really long, 3-part story about the devil. The beast's in my collection which I hope you get to read someday. Anyway, I feel that same mood building & it's just day 1 on these roids
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The last time I was on steroids, sick as a dog, I couldn't sleep so I got up & wild-wrote all night. The outcome was a really long, 3-part story about the devil. The beast's in my collection which I hope you get to read someday. Anyway, I feel that same mood building & it's just day 1 on these roids
I had planned to go to @mbsycamore.bsky.social's book launch w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social at the Strand TONIGHT & was really looking forward to it, but sadly I have bronchitis. Very relieved it's not pneumonia. If you are in NYC, please go!
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I had planned to go to @mbsycamore.bsky.social's book launch w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social at the Strand TONIGHT & was really looking forward to it, but sadly I have bronchitis. Very relieved it's not pneumonia. If you are in NYC, please go!
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Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman.
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Do you ever stop and think, how in the world is Donald Trump president of the United States? Just how is this even possible? We deserve so much better than him.
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Do you ever stop and think, how in the world is Donald Trump president of the United States? Just how is this even possible? We deserve so much better than him.
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Oh no! SWEET TALK is one of those books I don't see talked about enough — and, in fact, often myself go too long without thinking about, and then I revisit and am reminded it's goated up there alongside JESUS' SON and ROCK SPRINGS, etc.
Just learned that my former professor, friend, and mentor Stephanie Vaughn, has died. For those unaware, Stephanie's book SWEET TALK is one of the greatest American story collections, up there with the likes of JESUS' SON. This is the justly famous intro of her story "Dog Heaven"
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Oh no! SWEET TALK is one of those books I don't see talked about enough — and, in fact, often myself go too long without thinking about, and then I revisit and am reminded it's goated up there alongside JESUS' SON and ROCK SPRINGS, etc.