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Slow Learner

Fiction, poetry, comics, and essays from novelist J Hardy Carroll. Frequent updates in many formats.

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Sep 19, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 19, 2026

    The History of Concrete (opens the original)

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    Thanks for reading Slow Learner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Hello again. Two posts in a week, you say? Well, New York will do that to you. A million stories in the naked

  2. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    New York is Always New York (opens the original)

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    Thanks for reading Slow Learner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substack

  3. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Short Story for a Terrible Day (opens the original)

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    Thanks for reading Slow Learner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://s

  4. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    About Iowa (opens the original)

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    Thanks for reading Slow Learner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Hello everyone. As many of you know, I lived in Iowa for twenty years. My wife, like almost all Iowans I know,

  5. Issue · Aug 15, 2026

    God's Lieutenant (opens the original)

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    Thanks for reading Slow Learner! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Greetings, everyone. I have spent the week with my second covid infection in a year. Every bout seems to get wo

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