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    There Are Way Too Many Obits for Rock Musicians

    12 January 2025

    Michael Fowler — Excerpt: You might say I was born to rock, or at least reached puberty to rock.

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    My Name’s Reacher. Jack Reacher. And I Just Want the Violence to Stop

    22 December 2024

    Daniel Seifert — Excerpt: I carry a little chart of the human body, and I cross off each area where I’ve broken someone’s bone.

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    Smells Like Home

    17 November 2024

    Parul Desai Shah — Excerpt: “A buyer said the house smelled. Like spices,” Nina stated with dramatic condemnation. This was a bullet wound to my family’s soul.

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    Satyanarayan Katha

    17 November 2024

    Jahnavi Gogoi — Excerpt: At one point in my childhood, I declare that I am an atheist. I do not believe in god. Everyone is horrified.

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    Hunting for Joy through Music — Holding Absence’s The Noble Art Of Self-Destruction

    3 November 2024

    Mark McConville — Excerpt: To create art, you must be ambitious, and Holding Absence shows they’re masters of melancholia while breaking ground.

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