L’Erin Ogle’s story “The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal and Glass” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 28 June 2019. “The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal And Glass” was really predicated on one idea—a doctor raising girls from the dead who had committed suicide to atone for his own failure as a father. The characters took on a life of their own, and it became much darker than originally …
L’Erin Ogle’s story “Mean Streak” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 22 February 2019. “Mean Streak” started when I tried to understand where hatred of a group of people different from someone came from. I have known intelligent, otherwise kind people I have stepped away from due to their opinions and beliefs about who counts as a person in the world today. Winnie, the main character, crept in my head and never left. Winnie hasn’t …
“Kate’s back,” says Lucy. I look over and there Kate is, back from the dead yet again, even though there are rules about that sort of thing. No one else has ever come back more than twice. It’s like three strikes and you’re out—you’ve officially become too expensive or too troublesome to revive any more. But Kate’s returned from dying at least half a dozen times. “Again,” says Lucy, rolling her eyes so hard her …
Q: What is your favorite word?
A: There are so many. I’m a particular fan of ‘lasterday’ invented by my 5 year old instead of yesterday. Technically, she’s right. But I love words that roll off the tongue, such as melancholy, soliloquy, lascivious, lucious, and my favorite 4 letter word, starts with F.
To pick one?
Doppelgänger.
L’Erin Ogle’s story “The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal and Glass”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 28 June 2019.
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L’Erin is a writer, mother, and ER/Trauma Nurse from Lawrence, Kansas. She has stories at Metaphorosis, Syntax&Salt, and forthcoming from Pseudopod, as well as various other publications. She’s hard at work saving lives, working on a novel, writing more stories, and resisting the Trump administration and all that it stands for.
L’Erin Ogle’s story “The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal and Glass”
in Metaphorosis Friday, 28 June 2019.
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L’Erin Ogle’s story “Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, and I Love You” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 23 November 2018. “Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, and I Love You” was about grief. It started as in idea—what would you do to gain a moment to say goodbye, to explain to someone what they meant, and why you weren’t able to convey that when they left you? What would a person do, to gain a moment in time to …
