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Starting Fresh
Whenever I open my browser, my WordPress site appears as my home page. But before it fully loads, I hurriedly navigate away. It’s become an automatic thing for me to avoid it. Well, I’m going to try and restart this yet again. I never stopped writing. The actual habit of sitting down to write and…
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Oroonoko and Sustaining Dream States
What does Alphra Behn’s Oroonoko teach us about writing fiction? It’s considered a forerunner of the modern novel, the latter beginning with Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. One obvious reason it isn’t considered a novel itself is its relatively short length, but what also separates it from the form is the distance the reader is held from…
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Crash
I was scanning the olives when I heard what I first thought were the shopping aisles collapsing like dominos. I winced, then whipped my head around expecting to see something like a tsunami of groceries swelling towards me, but everything in my visual field was absurdly stable. Still, the grinding and smashing of glass and…
The Whale Belly 