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Sand doll-forms at craft shops bald sightless blockheads you should watch tutorials on airbrushing rose into cheeks think of a doll for every ethnicity the minefield mechanics of noticing shades of blush Populate a scheme to become a catalogue name with burials in a fold and tab-together box they were smoothed […]
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My Blog Week: November 15 to November 21
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week More Flounce to the Ounce Earlier in the Trump presidency, commentators used to say, “The one thing about Trump is that he’s never boring.” Well. These […]
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The Folly Allied Forces Heneglwys Sir, In my researches into the vanished tribes Which predate the era of Coel Hen Who, I need hardly tell you, is known to the modern reader of the nursery rhyme A prelate of that village which calls itself Heneglwys Whom […]
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Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! Introduction: part four A Different Kind of Translation, continued: The format of a story—not its paragraphing style, but the skeletal shape into which a fiction is introduced—will deliver engagement or fail to, depending on whether the form has […]
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