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Look, Ma’, No Hands (opens the original)
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."—Walt WhitmanSubscribe nowEach night since he was four, going on more than twelve years now, Franklin Copernicus1 Century had begged his mother to let him go outside after dark so he could play under the stars. Each evening Franklin’s mother had a
Meet Kylie Hudson: Our 2026 Fall Intern (opens the original)
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved books. I vehemently requested one to be read to me every night before bed, before I was old enough to stay up too late reading myself. I still have the same local library card I got when I was four, where my mom had to write my name for me since I was still working on writing my name legibly. As I grew up, my love for reading shaped my world. It was the main way I bonded with my brother, who wasn’t always fond of only having sisters. On family vacations,
Sky Water Thawing: One Sudden Summer Day (opens the original)
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“In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”—Richard BrautiganSubscribe nowSky water arrives clear and clean and cool as ice. The morning starts dreamy, with a deep, drifting layer of fog. Birds are singing loudly. A pair of sandhill cranes peek through the mist. A northern breeze is feeding cold through the air, reminding me of early spring: plump green pea pods, bright red radishes, spears of asparagu
Solstice Day: Shadows Long and Lean (opens the original)
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“A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many … as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cats, dogs, butterflies and people.”—John SteinbeckShareThe day begins so evenly, so level. Already, a bright, ground-level sun has begun to cast my shadow in front of me. Today is the longest day of the year, and I’m on t
A Substack Short: Hey now! A perpetual broth that's how old? (opens the original)
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“You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly.”—Marvin Bell, from “To Dorothy”Subscribe nowStarting with a dramatic surprise is easy, but doing so requires talent if you hope to hold a reader’s attention for very long. I’m not a literary critic or a “school-trained” writer, but my technique when I wrote a magic-realism novel1</a
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