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Stray Our Pieces
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Stray Our Pieces

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Gloria Hytner is the protagonist in Jason Graff’s edgy study of a disconsolate woman in a marriage she…
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The Box that Jane Built
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The Box that Jane Built

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“The Box That Jane Built” is the lead story in Julie Elizabeth Powell’s collection* of four short stories.…
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The Guardian's Apprentice
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The Guardian’s Apprentice: Beyond the Veil

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Between the third and seventh centuries A.D., a religion called Manichaeism originated in the Middle East (Near East)…
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The Appointment
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The Appointment

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Say you are a passenger on a bus you have ridden many times before. You are going to…
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About

Poet, writer, and educator, Sandra Squire Fluck is known for her love of books. She was born into a military family and traveled whenever and wherever her father was transferred. During these travels after sunset, she was also known to finish the novels she was reading with a flashlight in hand. She has written poetry, stories, plays, and essays since she was young, but during her college years poetry seemed to come unbidden and has become a lifelong calling.

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The opening stanzas from “Do Not Fear.”
The opening stanzas from “Do Not Fear.”
"Ecstasy of Night."
"Ecstasy of Night."
On this 32nd anniversary of Tiananmen Square, I remember Liu Xiaobo. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University at the time and returned to Beijing to be a part of the protest. He was then imprisoned for 18 months for his part in the movement, after which he lost his teaching job and his writings were banned. He continued to write for two more decades and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2010. In 2012 Perry Link et al. published No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, the first English translation of Liu Xiaobo's collective writings. His work is deeply affecting. ⠀
On this 32nd anniversary of Tiananmen Square, I remember Liu Xiaobo. He…
Quote from my latest newsletter “On Writing: The Origin of Style.” Read it @thewritelaunch link in bio.
Quote from my latest newsletter “On Writing: The Origin of Style.” Read…
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