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Janice Konstantinidis
Janice Konstantinidis

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2 days ago

1962 The Year of Fagiilty

A Magdalene Laundry Tale. In 1962, My grandfather, that looming figure of authority, suffered a stroke, an unraveling of his neural circuitry that left him a man reduced to outbursts of profanity. Tourette’s, the doctor speculated, but what did it matter what we called it? …

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3 days ago

Finding Proportion

I was merely six yet already an impassive witness to a life that had proceeded as if I were merely part of the scenery. The credo I imbibed was bleak and clear: to be visible but not vocal, and often not even the former. It was under the strict supervision…

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4 days ago

In The Name of The Father

A Magdalene Laundry Tale. In that dim sanctum of enforced divinity, morning comes like an act of aggression, a jarring interruption to the inertia hanging heavily in the dormitory air. The rote and ritualistic words flutter in the air like a battle flag: “In the name of the Father, and…

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5 days ago

Shackled by the laws of ‘Marks’

A Magdalene Laundry Tale. In the cold hallways of Mount Saint Canice, we lived amidst a morass of coded rites, a lexicon of rules that evoked their own obscure logic, even as they contradicted all sensibility. …

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6 days ago

Burlap Cloth and Shaved Heads

Burlap Cloth and Shaved Heads As everyone in Mount Saint Canice knew, I knew that the institution we inhabited existed in the liminal space between salvation and subjugation. …

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Sep 15

Marks and Parlor

A Magdalene Laundry Tale The composition of Mount Saint Canice was intricate, a chaotic blending of lifetimes — elderly women incarcerated for years, young women tethered to the mundane rituals of the convent farm. A voluntary contingent, their existence further complicating the mechanics of the institution. …

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Sep 13

In Praise of Parallel Universes

A Magdalen Laundy Tale — Families. In that arresting blur between reality and fiction, in that dimly lit space where every experience seeps into the marrow of your bones, there I was a witness to the derelictions of others, shaped but not defined by the pervasive inattention and indiscretions that…

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Sep 12

A Very Troubled Child

Once is never enough. The rituals take shape in the rooms where we live out our unguarded hours, a mixture of yearning and dread. They were devised to save us, or so we believe. I was eight when I first sensed the unease, a nebulous contagion that tinged the edges…

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Sep 12

Mount Saint Canice

A reflection Mount Saint Canice undoubtedly became a part of my story — an unwanted chapter, perhaps, but one that unquestionably shapes the arc of my life narrative in ways I can neither fully understand nor entirely escape. In a landscape of uniform bleakness, Mount Saint Canice stood like a…

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Sep 10

A Posy For My Daughter

A Posy For My Daughter. In the hushed light of a Sunday, held close by the afterglow of a full-blue moon. I find myself treading the sanctuary of my late-summer garden. Life is a study in contrast — a meadow of contradictions, teeming with vitality even as it skirts the…

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Janice Konstantinidis

Janice Konstantinidis

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I am a lover of fine cheese, my dogs, my garden, knitting, photography, writing and more!

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