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WINNER @oxfordflash,2nd Propelling Pencil 22; flash finalist @LIStoryPrize 22; winner RW April 22 micro & FFF13 . Member @retreatwest and @writershq communities

Joined October 2021
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It's crazy in the back of mind I've ALWAYS thought the structure of the song was so odd but interesting but I've never really questioned it but now that we're saying it out loud.. This is GENIUS.
Okay, I know it’s just my algorithm, but I love seeing this so often in my feed. It’s one of the most astonishing pop songs I’ve heard. I love the review that said it had “the sheer balls to wait two minutes before even introducing a chorus”
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Today I'm starting The Trick, a newsletter going through every single Agatha Christie novel to analyze how she did it. Volume 1: Death on the Nile
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THEY WON HALLOWEEN
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شاعرية الزجاج الملوّن.
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I hate fashion girl Halloween because wdym you’re Marchesa Casati if she was still out and about in 2026
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Best costume award.
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Just saw a whole squad of T-Rex inflatable run through the streets making noises chasing a guy in a card board jeep Fucking cinema
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I hate sf halloween, what do you mean you’re going as survivorship bias
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Too cute! ❤️🎃
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Replying to @lamps_apple
I always remember the stat that it's Sweden's worst disaster in modern history. yes, Sweden
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I still struggle to wrap my head around the fact that the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami killed 250,000 people. 250,000
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The legendary "Spaghetti Dress" by Valentino Garavani. Pure structural poetry
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she can hear. her grandparents are deaf. so she babbles with her hands. babies around sign language babble with their hands, with the same rhythm as spoken babble.
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To my fellow sadists who might be interested, The New Yorker has reopened for fiction today and are now accepting work through submittable.
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I can’t believe we’re two months away from 2027 and the easiest way to save something as a PDF is still to lie to your computer and tell it you’re about to print it.
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These two gents seem to have upset all the right people by... [checks notes] winning a TV game show and donating to charity. #TheTraitors
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I'm still pushing for a Nobel Prize for the Voyager team. Outlasted its mission by 45 years and counting. Incredible.
BREAKING: 49 year old Voyager 1 signals Earth again after a 2-day outage
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what do you mean you're sailor moon mid-transformation for halloween???? this wins.
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Very clever 😂
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