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Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

Dexter, The Lumberjack Years

August 5, 2021 By Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

We were all disappointed in Showtime’s ending for the Dexter series, starring Michael C. Hall. Years ago, John King (The Drunken Odyssey Podcast) held a fan fiction night in downtown Orlando. This is the piece I read that night. And given the latest announcement of the Dexter reboot (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-oCTUrNfE ), we’d like to share The […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side

Inconvenience Yourself to Save Lives

March 18, 2020 By Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

I will be 39 in April. I’m a mother of a toddler, I’m a wife, an educator, writer, visual artist. I vote. I’m passionate about civil rights and the welfare of others. Though, honestly, I never feel like I’m doing any good in this world, that many times I feel like a cog in a […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: Covid-19, essay, Genevieve Anna Tyrrell, nonfiction, Social Distancing, Writing

This Holiday Season

December 3, 2019 By Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

As a visual artist and a writer it weighs heavily on my mind every holiday season what my Ghost Parachute covers should say or do or evoke or show. Because I can’t forget what’s happening. This holiday season, while you eat your turkeys, your hams, your roasts, nibble on chocolate chips, sugar cookies, gingerbread, sip […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: border, essay, Genevieve Anna Tyrrell, holidays, immigration, Writing

Motherhood and Writing Life

August 30, 2018 By Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

The first two weeks of motherhood I said aloud, “I don’t want to be a mother anymore,” on a daily basis. With a chronic illness zapping my already sleep deprived body, I longed to write and make art. Almost two years into motherhood, I sacrifice my writing and visual art on a regular basis. It’s […]

Filed Under: Words From The Other Side Tagged With: Genevieve Anna Tyrrell, motherhood, nonfiction, Writing, writing life

Dinosaur World

October 1, 2016 By Genevieve Anna Tyrrell

Dinosaurs by Genevieve Anna Tyrrell - a flash fiction story on ghost parachute.com Photo by Ashley Inguanta and Sandy Holmes

Neither Rebecca or Drew could be certain the exact moment in which they decided the cute local newspaper boy had to go. Seething resentment just kind of crept up over time, until eventually, they started fantasizing about his ten-year-old skull crushed by a random piano falling out of the sky, a Mac truck swerving just […]

Filed Under: Archives, October 2016 Issue

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Best Small Fictions Nomations

January 21, 2023 By Brett Pribble

The Storming of Rome by Slawka G. Scarso Juicy Fruit by Katie Coleman You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arrive by Kathy Fish Eddie by David James Poissant Something Fierce and Unnamed by Tommy Dean

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