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The NaNoWriMo Decision: Competing Story Ideas
EVERY YEAR ABOUT THIS TIME, I TEND to be afflicted with two competing novel ideas dueling to be chosen for National Novel Writing Month, and I feel like I’m in a dilemma on the scale of Sophie’s Choice: Which novel idea (or child) do I choose? I can
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Critical Path
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2022 500-Word Essay Contest
By Beverly Rose MY GRANDFATHER BECAME MY LEgal guardian after tragedy made me mostly an orphan: a mother dead from childbirth and a disinterested dad. Leo, named after his mother’s favorite fruit peddler, was gruff, opinionated, fiercely protective,

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