The Other Maine

The Other Maine

The dead don't talk but they do tell stories

Meet me at the cemetery gates

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Emily Burnham
Sep 02, 2025
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Call me mother. Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, late August 2025. Photo by me.

Once or twice a week after the workday is done, I will go upstairs, get in bed, open up TikTok on my phone and scroll until my brain begins to moulder and rot like a sandwich left out in the rain.

While ping-ponging between videos of mini donkeys, Indian recipes and drag queens ea…

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