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The Lost Letters of William Woolf

Lost letters have only one hope for survival.

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The Emerald Sea

Being better than everyone else was exhausting work.

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The Sun Does Shine

There’s no way to know the exact second your life changes forever.

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Finding

The September days are shorter and cooler now.

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Transcription

‘Miss Armstrong? Miss Armstrong, can you hear me?’

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Ash Arising

It's gutting how much can change in just four weeks.

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The Water Cure

Once we have a father, but our father dies without us noticing.

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Summer

That I have my own lawn sprinkler has never quite dawned on me

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Ultimatum

‘Salaam, Ali-jaan. It’s me.’

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Meet Me at the Museum

Dear young girls, Home again from the deserts and oases of the Sheikdoms I find your enthusiastic letters on my desk.

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Tom Clancy's Line of Sight

Dr. Guzman rubbed her tired eyes.

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On Chesil Beach

They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible.

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The President is Missing

The sharks are circling, their nostrils twitching at the scent of blood.

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Star of the North

The sea was calm the day Soo-min disappeared.

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The Grey Ghost

Late for work, Reginald Oren raced across the street, the cobblestones slick from the night’s rain.

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Disobedience

And on the Shabbat, the priests would sing a song for the future that is to come, for that day which will be entirely Shabbat and for the repose of eternal life.

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Mind That Child

Today’s ward round is an eventful one, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

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Forever and a Day

‘So, 007 is dead.’

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A Sister in My House

I can't explain why I did it.

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Origin Story

We arrive in this universe through no choice of our own, at a time and place not of our choosing.

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Bullshit Jobs

Let us begin with what might be considered a paradigmatic example of a bullshit job.

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The Language Of Kindness

I didn’t always want to be a nurse.

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