I used to tell people I needed to write a novel before I could consider offspring. I have written one novel. I am considering purchasing a fern.
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Washington PostIndependent Plant Daddy.
Cut a rosette from the stem.
2. Leave it out to dry and callous. (A soft cutting may rot.)
3. Line a cup with pebbles, and layer over with soil.
4. Place the cutting on the soil.
5. Wait. New leaves will grow around it.
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Someone once told me if I had a child, I’d lose it. Someone once told me if I had a child, it would know all the best stories. Someone once told me if I had a child, it would be beautiful. Someone once told me if I had a child, it would have an eating disorder. Someone once told me if I had a child, it would fix me. Someone once told me if I had a child, I would never know anything like it.
Author of the novel Harmless Like You. Winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, Starling Days is out in April 2020. Short work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Atlantic, The Harvard Review, and NPR's Selected Shorts.
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