Writer’s Summer
phoenixinflight2 Says: August 10, 2008 at 1:35 am edit “I have been imagining something that I would live.” –Joyce Carol Oates On one of my many manic trips to SOMEWHERE ELSE this summer, I...
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View ArticleWriter’s Summer
phoenixinflight2 Says: August 10, 2008 at 1:35 am edit “I have been imagining something that I would live.” –Joyce Carol Oates On one of my many manic trips to SOMEWHERE ELSE this summer, I...
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