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If “there” is the place where rejections are occasionally replaced by acceptances, then I’m not there yet. I’m not pursuing…
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Verisimilitude. Let’s say it again, savoring each syllable this time: ver·i·si·mil·i·tude. I believe that I first read that word in a…
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“Remember, you’re always free to say something stupid, and if you don’t say stupid things people won’t correct you. Don’t…
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The more I hear from conspiracy theorists, the more they remind me of true religious believers. In the face of…
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As I more than half expected, the winner of the flash fiction contest that I entered with such hope four…
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I was a quiet child, the one that hid under tables during family parties with a book while my relatives…
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