Shannon Frost Greenstein

Shannon is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee, a Contributing Editor for Barren Magazine, and a former Ph.D. in Continental Philosophy.

Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Scary Mommy, Spelk Fiction, Crab Fat Magazine, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and elsewhere. 

Shannon works as a content writer and freelancer in Philadelphia, where she resides with her children and soulmate. 

https://shannonfrostgreenstein.com/

MORE. by Shannon Frost Greenstein

Please, Sir, can I have some…

MORE. is a collection that asks the forbidden questions and dares to answer with radical honesty. It is an exploration of the world though the lens of mental illness – meaning it is a reflection on joy and trauma and gratitude and heartbreak – and the experiences we share in the midst of it all.
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Today,

I mothered.

a miniature version of myself, a symbiosis, our prize in the Darwinian lottery.
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I coaxed him into the car and out of the car and into his chair and out of the bath, syrup in my voice, authority in my eyes, unconditional love made incarnate, until our four year-old nonverbal spectrum of wonder sleeps, and I suddenly wonder how to navigate with him through a world I cannot share.

MORE. available to pre-order here

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