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November 18, 2019

I hope…

Write 10 lines, each starting with the words, I hope… I hope the Zombie Apocalypse starts soon; humanity needs saving. I hope tomorrow is a better day than today. I hope my knee gets better. I hope someday to see my name 10 feet high and luminous green. I hope...

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September 29, 2016

Understanding other places

“One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.” So wrote Southern novelist Eudora Welty in her essay “Place in Fiction,” and it’s a concept well worth thinking about in an era in which communities and countries feel paradoxically fractured and all-encompassing, in which people feel torn apart and thrown together, all...

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