Maureen Langloss

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Resurrection

August 27, 2024 By Maureen Langloss

Picture of my mom and me from summer 2023

It’s been a minute. Life has been a bit of a blur. You see, my mom, Barbara Langloss, died of cancer at 8:15am on Tuesday, July 16. She waited for Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth to get up there before making her fashionably late appearance at the tender age of 76. She didn’t die … [Read more...]

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Verbing

May 15, 2024 By Maureen Langloss

A few words from Richard Serra's verb list in Maureen Langloss's hand on a blue sheet of paper.

Would you like to play with me? I’m between creative projects, trying to let my mind rest and replenish. Are you in this place too? Want to try a brain relaxer? To start, let's get back in our pajamas. Pour a cup of tea. Put on some music. Pull out a sheet of paper or two. … [Read more...]

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Beautiful Burning Life

April 1, 2024 By Maureen Langloss

I felt like reading you a passage from Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature. Sorry for the poor video quality. I did this on a lark. It's just me and my iPhone. If I decide to post more video content, I will learn how to do a better job of this! But thanks for indulging me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: Franz Kafka, Lectures on Literatre, The Metamorphosis, Vladimir Nabokov

Deliver Us

December 18, 2023 By Maureen Langloss

The opening moments from the Taylor Swift concert

I wrote a story about a character named Taylor Swift, and SmokeLong Quarterly was kind enough to publish it. I'm delighted and grateful to see my work appear beside such talented authors in a literary magazine I have admired for years. I hope you'll read everything in SLQ's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: flash fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, Taylor Swift

Interview with Kate Doyle

September 15, 2023 By Maureen Langloss

It was such a joy to interview Kate Doyle about her stunning debut collection, I Meant It Once, for Split Lip Magazine's new issue. We published “The Goldfish in the Pond at the Community Garden"—one of my favorite stories in her collection—in Split Lip a year ago … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Cara Blue Adams, Center for Fiction, Kate Doyle, Split Lip Magazine

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Latest Post

Gull flying out over turquoise water

May I Hover Like a Gull

…Why not take the smashed pinecone of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? Yes, why not? As you may know, I recently dedicated myself to a new writing practice—a promise to copy a poem a day. And here I am changing the rules […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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