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  • Tulsi Plants

    Tulsi Plants

    “You’re just like your appa, you know that? Two working ears, but only listening from one…

  • All Black and White: A Review of Brandon Sanderson’s Wax and Wayne Series

    All Black and White: A Review of Brandon Sanderson’s Wax and Wayne Series

    The heroes and villains are not as well drawn, resulting in a battle between good and…

  • How Greta Gerwig Made Her Own Way in the World: An Innovative Retelling of the Timeless Classic “Little Women”

    How Greta Gerwig Made Her Own Way in the World: An Innovative Retelling of the Timeless Classic “Little Women”

    Gerwig’s Little Women rises to the challenge of reproducing a timeless classic by imbuing her unique…

  • On the transformative power of female kinship: A Review of Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

    On the transformative power of female kinship: A Review of Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

    The readers grow with the speaker; we are able to witness the experiences that shift her…

  • Persuasion vs. Pride and Prejudice: Which is the Better Love Story?

    Persuasion vs. Pride and Prejudice: Which is the Better Love Story?

    Both novels end with happy marriages and comment on the society of the time period, though…

  • A Message of Encouragement from Mark Salzman

    A Message of Encouragement from Mark Salzman

    If you like telling stories, if you like putting things into words, it’s going to come…

  • A Writer’s World – The good, the great, and the inbetween

    A Writer’s World – The good, the great, and the inbetween

    I’m learning that maybe there’s somewhere in between being good and being great— the space that…

  • Borderline

    Borderline

    By the year 2020, years of therapy had helped me accept a blistering status quo: the…

  • Pain as Power: Review of Witch King by Martha Wells

    Pain as Power: Review of Witch King by Martha Wells

    Martha Wells’s bestselling Murderbot series has been lauded for its aromantic and asexual representation, but coming…

  • The Subtle Art of Silliness: How Children’s Media Can Heal our Inner Child

    The Subtle Art of Silliness: How Children’s Media Can Heal our Inner Child

    Do you ever wonder why there seems to be a timeless essence to the stories little…

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