Margaret Taylor-Ulizio

Margaret Taylor-Ulizio is a canon lawyer and part-time Religious Studies Instructor. She volunteers as an animal rehabilitator, likes turtles, plays harp sometimes, and walks a lot. She has taken up writing and is working hard to secure 100 rejections (and maybe a publications). Her first published poem appears in the 2024 New Jersey Bards Poetry Review.

Teresa

Chapter 1
Chelsea Hartman stared out of her bedroom window, a dull ache deep within her chest. Her once vibrant world had become a monochromatic landscape, devoid of laughter and girlhood friends. Just like every morning for the past few weeks, she watched as the sun peeked through the clouds that hung over Southern California. The sudden closure of her school just as she was about to return after Spring Break marked the beginning of her isolated life.