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Welcome to Bones Road

Ageless Beauty Products for the Aged

5 min readDec 14, 2023

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Welcome to Bones Road

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Welcome to NYC High School Admissions 2024–2025

Let the games begin!

5 min readMar 4, 2024

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Welcome to NYC High School Admissions 2024–2025

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50 Solid Reasons To Reschedule Your Colonoscopy

1. Clearly, there’s been some mistake because there’s no way in hell you’re fifty.

3 min readFeb 19, 2024

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50 Solid Reasons To Reschedule Your Colonoscopy

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Bedside Notebook Scribblings of New York Times Connections Editor Wyna Liu

Cash. Carson. Depp. But two of those are not words?

2 min readJan 23, 2024

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Bedside Notebook Scribblings of New York Times Connections Editor Wyna Liu

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How Long Must We Sing This Song?

Sometimes going out to hear the old hits just makes you feel old.

8 min readDec 20, 2023

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I Am Your New Favorite Sweater and I Need You To Change

Listen. I get it. You like me. You really, really like me. I’ve heard you tell the story a few times now, about how you saw an acquaintance…

4 min readDec 18, 2023

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I Am Your New Favorite Sweater and I Need You To Change

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We Have No Words

They brought us home to homes they barely left. They wanted to play all day. They wanted to snuggle all night. They wanted something new…

10 min readMar 12, 2021

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We Have No Words

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Holy Rollers

An essay about Christmas at Foxwoods. From January 2002, when I was still Tara McCarthy. Originally published on Killing the Buddha.

8 min readDec 23, 2020

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Holy Rollers

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Soundproof Your Life

A short story. Previously published in One Teen Story magazine.

21 min readDec 21, 2020

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Soundproof Your Life

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TaraAltebrando

TaraAltebrando

Author of The Leaving, Take Me With You, and more. Creator of the Dream Breachers podcast on Pinna. Also formerly Tara McCarthy.

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