Mary Lannon

Mary Lannon's short stories have been published at Story, New World Writing, and Woven Tale Press. A recipient of a 2020 Queens Council on the Arts grant and a 2021 City Artist Corps grant, she runs a reading series at her neighborhood bookstore in Queens and teaches at Nassau Community College in Long Island, NY. She is currently at work on a second novel and is looking for a publishing home for her first novel.

The Key to Catastrophe Management

I’ve finally figured it out, I mean, about the weather and all: how important it is to me, to you, to everyone, to our well-being. For a long time, I thought it was Charlie who figured it out first. But before that—Charlie and I—we were in the same boat. Neither of us knew of our complete and utter ignorance. No, neither of us had any respect at all for the weather that last semester of senior year when we first met searching—in what can only be understood as a mockery of our ultimate fate—for a meteorology class.

Long Short Story

Mary Lannon

Mary Lannon's short stories have been published at Story, New World Writing, and Woven Tale Press. A recipient of a 2020 Queens Council on the Arts grant and a 2021 City Artist Corps grant, she runs a reading series at her neighborhood bookstore in Queens and teaches at Nassau Community College in Long Island, NY. She is currently at work on a second novel and is looking for a publishing home for her first novel.

The Key to Catastrophe Management

I’ve finally figured it out, I mean, about the weather and all: how important it is to me, to you, to everyone, to our well-being. For a long time, I thought it was Charlie who figured it out first. But before that—Charlie and I—we were in the same boat. Neither of us knew of our complete and utter ignorance. No, neither of us had any respect at all for the weather that last semester of senior year when we first met searching—in what can only be understood as a mockery of our ultimate fate—for a meteorology class.

Long Short Story

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