Thank You for Staying with Me

Auteur

Bailey Gaylin Moore is an Ozarks-based writer who lives with her husband and son in the heart of Missouri, where she is amassing a plant collection for her cat to shamelessly destroy. She serves as the editor in chief for the online nonfiction series Past Ten, which asks contributors to consider where and who they were ten years ago. Her work has appeared in AGNI Magazine, Pleiades, Wigleaf, Willow Springs, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals. Thank You for Staying with Me is her debut essay collection.

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This collection of essays navigates the complications of home, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks.

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Author’s Note

Step One: How to Be a Daughter

Mostly My Mother’s Daughter

Second Molars

Behind the Subway in Chesterfield Village

Puke Angels

Dark Center of the Universe

The End of the Rainbow

Choices

Step Two: How to Hold a Baby

Piece by Piece

ACTing

Wall of Water

Step Three: How to Be a Student

Galaxy Identification

Hegel Exercises

Count the Beats

Unbreaking an Egg

A Scattering of Our Own

Step Four: How to Untangle Knots

One Fish, Two Fish

Matted and Mangled

Life Is Too Short Not to Get Beef Jerky from a Van on the Side of a Highway

Dissonance

If You Build It, Baseball Dads Will Come

Step Five: How to Mourn a Nation

Mein(e) C—

Reclaiming Voices Like Needles in Haystacks

Twitter’s Hot Takes on Women in Politics

Gal-vanized

Step Six: How to Love Your Home

Two Degrees of Separation from Brad Pitt

When Natalie Walks into the Snow

Penumbra

D Explains How to Speak to a Police Officer

All Things Being Equal

Homecoming

Overkill

Praying to Lyra

Brave New World

Thank You for Staying with Me

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