Sam Desmond | The New Engagement

Sam Desmond

Sam Desmond

Sam Desmond

Sam Desmond lives in bucolic Bayport, New York with her husband and menagerie of dogs and cats where she is a community reporter for the Suffolk County News and Long Island Advance. Her short fiction has been published in multiple literary magazines. Prior to her career as a journalist, she had twelve years of experience as a corporate immigration legal writer for top 100 law firms.

Work by This Artist

The Writer

By Sam Desmond

Subjects include dependency and exploitation.

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In Polite Rejection (Otis’s Heart)

By Sam Desmond

In a bitter voice, the undergirding of self worth is dismantled as a possible, unnerving root of feminism is excavated.

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IN THE LIGHT OF MEN (or the follies of Mrs. Gautreau)

By Sam Desmond

Imagine an epistolary between Emily Post and Larry Flynt.

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I Died at 27, The New Engagement, Short Story

I Died at 27

By Sam Desmond

A personal and harrowing account of despair and self-acceptance.

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Bleaching Lies

By Sam Desmond

Cultural appropriation, Princess Diana, and Long Island mores. Shaken ... and stirred.

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