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Marissa W. Chen lives in New York and often visits clumps of weeds in the park. She finds and collects ephemera on IG @marissawchen.


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01 FAN (DISAMBIGUATION) 

The sound of summer rain was muffled by the low-frequency hum of a standing fan. She liked to sit in the dark half-light on these days. Slough off the albatrosses that clung so tightly around her neck.

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MWC-2020:
07-14-2020





02 EGG SALAD 

Published in Overheard Lit Mag, 2022.

Tomorrow I will make egg salad. With olive oil and lots of salt. 

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MWC-2020:
07-17-2020

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03 BRIDLE PATH

The day felt like standing at the edge of an ocean. 

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MWC 2020: 
03-29-2020

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04 CHERRY SEASON
 
The money tree died a while back. It might have been May, definitely well before the end of July. I had spent those months eating cherries and missed it completely.  

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MWC 2020: 
08-2020













The glyph of an eight-pointed pinwheel star is reminiscent of a compass rose, each point denoting one of the eight cardinal winds