“Unraveling Desires and Dread: A Deep Dive into Casey Mulligan Walsh’s ‘The Full Catastrophe'”
I first became acquainted with the author’s work from her viral essay “Still” (Split Lip; June 2022) — a breathless, present-tense masterclass on flash nonfiction that earned Walsh a Best of the Net nomination and was long-listed for SmokeLong Quarterly’s Grand Micro Competition 2023. Remember how the narrator generously frontloads her son’s death? Well, that introduction is an excerpt of the already bite-sized “Still” — a two-sentence-long, comma- and em-dash-happy paragraph that’s anything but.
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