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Losing Myself (And My Wi-fi) In Venice
I once read a short story by Daphne du Maurier about a man in Venice who…
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What Bathos Can Do for Your Short Fiction
We all know the drill: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action. This is the formula for…
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Personal Essay: Secondhand Horror
I have never read The Highly Sensitive Child by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. Since I spotted…
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How to Pretend to Have Read Books Without Really Trying
Like most college students—and like all who wear lens-less glasses—I entered freshmen year entirely assured I…
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On Reading What You Want To and What You Don’t
I often find myself wondering why I’ve come to enjoy the things that I do. The…
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Essay: Are you there, “The New Yorker”? It’s me, every hopeful college writer.
College writers are desperate creatures, yearning for attention and audience. Hungry for praise, popularity, and even…
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Essay: Sci-Fi and the Trick to World Building in Creative Fiction
Sci-Fi. An abbreviation that has the power to invoke utter joy or disgust given the beholder…
