Tells Lies for a Living
from New York Times best-selling fantasy author Cinda Williams Chima
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- Sep 11, 2026
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First Night Akron after 911 (opens the original)
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The bubble machine on the stage spun out clouds of bubbles that descended gently on the crowd. The bubbles were actually freezing in the breathless cold. They would break, and collapse, but spiral down, like deflated balloons of spun sugar, to be collected on the palm and shrivel and disappear at the touch of a warm breath. By now, most of the strollers were gone, but school-age children who were up too late were laughing and chasing after them, and twirling to make themselves dizzy, and feeling
Ransacked: Part 2 (opens the original)
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In a previous post, I described the break-in at our home in February, 2020, at the start of the pandemic. In this piece, one of the men who did it is brought to justice.Nearly six years after the break-in, in January, 2026, Senior Police Officer Mackenzie Galyean of the Asheville Police Department called to say that they had identified a suspect in our burglary. DNA evidence from the scene had been matched to a man arrested for another crime. Instantly, I was eager to know—was it the fingerprint
Ransacked (Part 1) (opens the original)
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In spring, 2019, my husband and I bought a house in Asheville, North Carolina. It was nearly one hundred years old—built of stone—but it had been rented out for several years and needed some updating. We hired contractors to update the bathrooms—which, come to find out, makes a considerable mess.<div c
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