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My Top Five Most Read Stories

Feast your eyes on what others have feasted their eyes on

4 min readMay 5, 2024

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Five yellow stars on a diagonal line split between pink and blue. A list of my top five most-read Medium stories.

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The Parenting Portal

Was Your Trauma Experienced Before Your Birth?

The egg you were born from may have seen some tough stuff

6 min readMay 3, 2024

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Close-up of pregnant torso in a white sweater holding their baby bump. When a woman is five months pregnant with a baby girl, the cellular beginnings of all of the fetus’s eggs have developed.

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Frazzled

Report: Local Mom Has Four Nights to Self, Squanders Every Second

Mom: “I fantasized for weeks leading up to my ‘me time’ and then I crumbled under the weight of my expectations.”

3 min readJan 12, 2024

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Report: Local Mom Has Four Nights to Self, Squanders Every Second

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My Best-Crafted Duds I Wish You’d Read

Everybody likes a comeback story

2 min readApr 28, 2024

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My Best-Crafted Duds I Wish You’d Read

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Write Under the Moon

My First Poetry Professor Asked Me to Write a Bad Poem

Why this was the perfect introduction to writing poetry

3 min read1 day ago

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Backdrop: a brick wall. A young woman with a high bun wearing a black blazer holds a book over their face.

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emoshitstorm

emoshitstorm — weather report #4

Prompt and circumstances

4 min read4 days ago

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emoshitstorm — weather report #4

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Read or Die!

Five Things This Neurodivergent Lady Forgot About Jeans Shopping

Besides it sucks.

5 min readMay 24, 2024

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A chic woman in sunglasses holds many shopping bags. The light shines on her face, the background is white with a triangular raised design.

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Write Under the Moon

For Long After We Parted, I Sent Her Letters

A prose poem inspired by loss and control

2 min readMay 21, 2024

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A handwritten letter in black and white, landscape.

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The Memoirist

Maybe It Was a Love Affair

What remains of what can’t be known

6 min readMay 17, 2024

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Sepia-toned aged photo journal held by pink hands. Open to black and white photograph, memories removed by a generation or two. What happened between two people so long ago? What happens to an unconfirmed affair?

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The Penny Pub

Five Things This Neurodivergent Lady Forgot About Friendship

Besides I suck at it

4 min readMay 15, 2024

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Person in button-down shirt sits at a table. The camera’s focus is on two hands covered in many colors of paint. One hand holds a mechanical pencil, the other a paintbrush. A neurodivergent woman’s life is messy and creative.

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Lora Straub Brocone

Lora Straub Brocone

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TMI, emotional, neurodivergent (ADHD edition), funny, funny haha, sentence polisher. Editor of emoshitstorm. Inquiries: Lora.Straub.Brocone@gmail.com

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