Maggie McCombs

Maggie McCombs is a managing editor at a tech company by day and poet by night. Her words appear on a Medium publication, and she has some upcoming poems in the online journal "Half and One." She lives with her husband, Anthony, and their whole zoo of four pets in Lexington, Kentucky, where the grass really is blue.

The Visiting Committee

The first day, early morning

I wake up to lights in my face again. Right in my eyes, beaming back through a crack in my head. This is at least the eighteenth time they’ve come by in one night. I’m counting them like sheep to pass the time as they cycle in, their voices changing every couple hours.
Creative Nonfiction
Issue 86, August 2024

Maggie McCombs

Maggie McCombs is a managing editor at a tech company by day and poet by night. Her words appear on a Medium publication, and she has some upcoming poems in the online journal "Half and One." She lives with her husband, Anthony, and their whole zoo of four pets in Lexington, Kentucky, where the grass really is blue.

The Visiting Committee

The first day, early morning

I wake up to lights in my face again. Right in my eyes, beaming back through a crack in my head. This is at least the eighteenth time they’ve come by in one night. I’m counting them like sheep to pass the time as they cycle in, their voices changing every couple hours.
Creative Nonfiction
Issue 86, August 2024
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