Nathalie Frias
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Destin, Dogs, and a Very Public Loss of Dignity
I had a very clear agreement with my couch. Joe had not been informed. Ten… Read more.
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Why This Blog Makes Zero Sense (And I Refuse to Fix It)
Two tabs open at all times: one for my dogs’ nonsense, one for fictional corporate… Read more.
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From the Requesting Side to the Releasing Side: The Shadowing
My calendar was a vast empty field with nothing in it but ambition, three unfinished… Read more.
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From the Requesting Side to the Releasing Side: A Records Specialist’s Identity Crisis
For two years I was the woman on the other end of your fax machine.… Read more.
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Destin, Florida: A Weekend I Was Not Ready For
I flew to Destin to support my brother through the hardest week of his life.… Read more.
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In Memory of a Beloved Best Friend
This is not a sad story. It is the story of Manchas, a Dalmatian who… Read more.
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What in the Seven Heavens, Bogotá!
August 2025, the day a routine Bogotá layover turned into a Colombian hostage situation, a… Read more.
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The Pupcup Debt
Savannah complained about one too many pictures. Horatio heard Starbucks and lost his mind. Dad… Read more.
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The Yearversary — Because Anniversary Was Already Taken | Chapter 4
Year Two is when the training wheels come off and nobody tells you. You just… Read more.
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The Yearversary — Because Anniversary Was Already Taken | Chapter 3
The morning of April 17, 2024 felt like a simulation. My nervous system kept sending… Read more.
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The Yearversary — Because Anniversary Was Already Taken | Chapter 2
People always ask what I miss about the nursing home. Not the nurses. Not the… Read more.
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The Yearversary — Because Anniversary Was Already Taken | Chapter 1
Most people would look at today and see an ordinary Friday. I have always been… Read more.
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She Put the Gloves On First
Donna is the one who holds the floor together. She’s also the one correcting the… Read more.
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Metastasis Case File 02: The Brazil Vacation | Chapter 1
Anastasia Mercer smells the decay from the driveway. Inside Palmetto House she finds expired food,… Read more.
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Metastasis Case File 02: The Brazil Vacation | Prologue
He posted about it three times a day, which is how Anastasia Mercer would eventually… Read more.
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Metastasis Case File 01: The Placenta Peddlers | Chapter 3
She sat in the interview room at the FBI field office, her diamond earrings obscene… Read more.
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Metastasis Case File 01: The Placenta Peddlers | Chapter 2
Not dry cleaning. Not cologne. Those smells were there, faint and fading, ghosts of a… Read more.
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Metastasis Case File 01: The Placenta Peddlers | Chapter 1
Gold bars. A Ferrari. A ledger full of dead patients billed for wound care they… Read more.
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The Last One from Before
Denise checked the hallways, the ratios, the smiles at the front desk. What she didn’t… Read more.
