by Dominique Taylor
Weekly musings on crafting stories and the occasional flash fiction.
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Reading Out of the Panopticon (opens the original)
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You might want to read Flights on a flight of your own, and I’m not talking via airplane necessarily.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MvxJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
The Portuguese Gift Giving Guide (opens the original)
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Michael Scott once said that “presents are the best way to show someone how much you care,” and if Michael Scott was named Miguel Soares, I wouldn’t be surprised if his ultimate gift giving gesture was an elephant.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
Simba's Jorts & Douglas Stuart's Literary Closet (opens the original)
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Until recently, in which I’ve been able to get my things out of storage, I’ve worn the same iteration of an outfit for the past several months and honestly it’s not been the best for my sense of style or self. I was that kid who often wondered, and worried, about cartoon characters having to wear the same outfit for the sake of the story and because apparently their storyteller didn’t have the capacity to imagine a more robust wardrobe on the drawing board. And while sartorial constraints on the
Done. (opens the original)
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1967 km. 41 days. 3 countries. One restless, unemployed American on her fifty-lem trip to rock bottom…but this time, on a bicycle.I’ve tried to start this newsletter so many different times and so many different ways, blitzing past the blindside of emotions I want to avoid but are somehow still dominating my present moment. Only for me to start at a sentence, false and full of the affectations I think make arriving at your destination complete, just to have the words knocked right off the page.I
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