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Sundays are for Piano
Watch now (4 min) | new original: "Annabelle"
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a song by an Irish river
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stream of consciousness
a subject walks into a bar
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“The Witch Trials of JK Rowling”
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9. How to Fall in Love During a Global Pandemic
photographic prose: flash fiction + an image
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8. How to Fall in Love During a Global Pandemic
"Your voice sounds like it's sunny"
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A Year in Review
Remembering what it is to be me
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if not, Paris
if not, Paris
writing novellas, essays & tall-tales from Paris
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