Margaret Elysia Garcia
Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of short story ebook collection Sad Girls and Other Stories, and the audiobook Mary of the Chance Encounters, and the co-founder and lead playwright of Las Pachucas, theatrical troupe. She teaches creative writing and theatre in a California state prison.
Quarantine Poem
Watching I watch the site Incessantly. Cases: 64,675. Deaths: 910. Bookmarked on my laptop. My editor called: First our hours were cut Then final time cards due Third for unemployment instructions. It’s late afternoon. Refresh. Cases: 65,564 Deaths: 929. I try to do Something. To not waste a moment Of this weird freedom To be […]
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Nothing.
I was humming this song earlier today without remembering what it actually was and what the lyrics were and then I remembered and laughed to myself and thought oh dear am I really that out there that I process emotions or non emotions through showtunes. Yes. The answer is yes. Sometime this last weekend my […]
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Not Going for the Bait
I still subscribe to a service that sends me alerts to community college teaching jobs in California. I spent 17+ years teaching at the community college level and when you do that semi-professional world for that long (I say semi because I was an adjunct and people assume there’s something wrong with us even though […]
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Throwing Chanclas 