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Emily Flake
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Emily Flake
@EmilyFlake
St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency: stnells.com
Brooklyn
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Nov 23, 2020
    I’ve never planned a better party than the one I planned when I was 8
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Sep 10, 2020
    Sometimes my daughter says “let’s marvelize the cat!” and then we lie down with the cat and pet him and tell him he is marvelous, the end
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Sep 13, 2021
    I think “Here’s 20 bucks to spend at a thrift store, no cheating” would be a very fun Met Gala theme and I simply do not know why I am not in charge of these things
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Oct 21, 2019
    My child has started writing raps and while I love her and applaud this development I wonder if she lacks the years of life experience the form demands
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Jul 7, 2021
    If you add a comma, “Call me, Ishmael” turns Moby-Dick into the world’s longest voicemail
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Jun 21, 2018
    Sure the jacket’s a distraction but it’s like if they were panning across a Nazi death camp, and then cut to an actual Nazi *giggling* - obviously the camp is the bigger problem but the giggle makes it clear just how fucking sick these people are.
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Nov 23, 2020
    Replying to @emilygmonster
    That’s only half the time allotted for lying around talking about how things are so mean, which tbh is still my favorite activity
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Apr 27, 2020
    Meniscus, you cowards
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Mar 23, 2021
    Here’s my cartoon in the @NewYorker this week and I mean every word of it
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Jul 17, 2020
    My daughter just told me I’m a thousand buttholes made into the shape of a woman. My work here is done.
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Mar 5, 2019
    I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast But that's just the kind of plum-eating bitch I am And you knew that when you married me (shrug emoji)
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Feb 5, 2021
    Very funny to me when memoirs have “about the author” pages
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Nov 23, 2020
    Replying to @EmilyFlake
    My daughter, a current 8-year-old, has thoughts
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    Emily Flake
    @EmilyFlake
    Nov 23, 2020
    Replying to @taylorgarron
    I honestly don’t think I devoted enough time to that discussion.