Purple Clover Archives - Mark Matousek

Here’s my latest piece for Purple Clover. It’s called “My Invisible Lover,” and tells the story of Laura Sauvebelle, my college…

I wrote about holidays with the family for Purple Clover this week. “If you want to see your family without going…

I was talking to my mother-in-law about Thanksgiving. “What is there to be thankful for?” she asked? I understood her desperate…

Check out Purple Clover’s first anthology. I have a piece in it called The Optimist’s Manifesto. Available on Amazon. Enjoy! “The…

I’ve gotten lots of good feedback on “The Mystery of Love” in Purple Clover. Here’s how it opens: “Love is the greatest…

I’ve gotten lots of good feedback on “Secrets and Lies,” my latest column on Purple Clover. It’s about the “chameleon effect,”…