Dolan Morgan

May 21, 2024 | theburningpalace.substack.com | Dolan Morgan

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published “COMING SOON: breathable guitar” “COMING SOON: breathable book” “COMING SOON: breathable friendship” “COMING SOON: breathable feeling of making it from one end of the day to the other without getting lost in the sea” “COMING SOON: breathable zoom meeting” “COMING SOON: breathable stocks” “COMING SOON: breathable sense of hopeful anticipation for what is next” “COMING SOON: breathable past” “COMING SOON: breathable past...

Dec 13, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Jean-Luc Bouchard |Rita Mookerjee |Dolan Morgan |Anna Sandy Elrod

When my husband was a child, he tells me, his favorite thing was the Titanic sinking. Not the Titanic, the Titanic sinking. My husband did not have a particular fondness for boats, not even enormous ones, not even the most impressive ones the world had ever seen. What he loved was the wreck: the way that the indestructible was destroyed, the way hubris has an inevitable end that we might as well sit back and admire. He told me this on our first date.

Nov 8, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Rita Mookerjee |Dolan Morgan |Mike Itaya |Destini Baylis Adams

after Taylor ByasHey, girl. I was at your old house just now. They’re trying to do you dirty. Did you knowthey turned that place into a museum? They even made a replica of that old whitehousecoat and stuck it on a mannequin inyour bedroom near your desk like a headless maidwaiting for you to go downstairs so she can snoopthrough your shit. Speaking of which, the docent isuncomfortable talking about your letters.

Oct 25, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Dolan Morgan |Mike Itaya |Destini Baylis Adams |Rowdy Geirsson

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Apr 2, 2023 | contrarymagazine.com | Dolan Morgan

Ringing phones start too many stories. Take this one for example. When it rings right at the mouth, we are forced to consider others that open this way – those crime novels, that translation, some classic, a romance, the paperback. And we wonder how to react to it happening again, here. Ring, ring. Are we angry? Bored? Do we write it off as cliché, played out, done? Or do we forge ahead, like a cocksure gymnast swinging from one ring to the next, remembering similar openings as generally worthwhile?