Michael Smith — Excerpt: As a schoolboy I was shocked, outraged even, that a creature could have its entire existence limited to just one day.
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Writing Against Oblivion
J.D. Isip — Excerpt: If we are honest, we all want to be ghosts.
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: The only question left for you to consider now is what happens when Mickey shows his shadows—his deeper, fallible, more steeped-in-sin-human qualities—over what audiences have been conditioned to expect.
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auguri, auguri!
Rachel Kitch — Excerpt: Only one thing was slightly off, and that was the bride. My dress—a custom Anne Barge—was slightly too big.
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“Self-Portrait of My Father as James Baldwin Reading Me Notes of a Native Son” by I Echo
Best of the Net 2025 Nomination: CNF Category — Originally published on 5 May 2024 in THR Weekly Features