Tara Van De Mark
@taravandemark.bsky.social
Recovering attorney now writer with work in Citron Review, Tiny Molecules, On the Seawall and others.
How was your spring break? Full of parental anxiety? Thanks to the Los Angeles Review for publishing my fictional flash piece, Missing Daughter. losangelesreview.org/missing-daug...
Missing Daughter by Tara Van De Mark - The Los Angeles Review
She went missing the day before our spring break. A picture of the effervescent youngwoman flashes on my phone with a travel alert from a friend saying, OMG isn’t this where youare going? Yes, kinda, ...
losangelesreview.org
April 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
How was your spring break? Full of parental anxiety? Thanks to the Los Angeles Review for publishing my fictional flash piece, Missing Daughter. losangelesreview.org/missing-daug...
Thrilled to share my first piece of 2026, “The Merry Go Round and Round and Round,” published in the Chautauqua Journal’s Carnivals & Masquerades issue.
www.chautauquajournal.com/post/the-mer...
www.chautauquajournal.com/post/the-mer...
The Merry Go Round and Round and Round
Tara Van De MarkIn an abandoned lot, just a block from the grand theater where the puppet show has started, sits the carousel. It’s exposed with no pavilion covering it. The horses are stripped bare...
www.chautauquajournal.com
April 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Thrilled to share my first piece of 2026, “The Merry Go Round and Round and Round,” published in the Chautauqua Journal’s Carnivals & Masquerades issue.
www.chautauquajournal.com/post/the-mer...
www.chautauquajournal.com/post/the-mer...
So excited to share my recent publication in Citron Review
"I purchased a stethoscope for Aaron so he could be more involved in the pregnancy. But when he couldn’t hear my placenta growing like synthesizer music of oyster mushrooms after rain he stopped listening."
citronreview.com/2023/10/01/b...
"I purchased a stethoscope for Aaron so he could be more involved in the pregnancy. But when he couldn’t hear my placenta growing like synthesizer music of oyster mushrooms after rain he stopped listening."
citronreview.com/2023/10/01/b...
October 5, 2023 at 6:12 PM
So excited to share my recent publication in Citron Review
"I purchased a stethoscope for Aaron so he could be more involved in the pregnancy. But when he couldn’t hear my placenta growing like synthesizer music of oyster mushrooms after rain he stopped listening."
citronreview.com/2023/10/01/b...
"I purchased a stethoscope for Aaron so he could be more involved in the pregnancy. But when he couldn’t hear my placenta growing like synthesizer music of oyster mushrooms after rain he stopped listening."
citronreview.com/2023/10/01/b...