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Letters from Sunday: Muffins, Gloom, and a New Anthology

(Thought I’d try writing here today. Maybe it would help to have a day to do it?) It’s damp and chilly here in Prague. We breakfasted on English muffins with lemon curd, both bought from Marks & Spencer (I’m not sure, in retrospect, that lemon curd goes well with English muffins). We were at Václavské…

VPE: The Declaration of Independence in Very Plain English

This is the first of a new series of posts: VPE, or Very Plain English. In these posts, I will “translate” old-fashioned documents and speeches into a clearer, more modern style. Of course, reading these translations isn’t the same as reading the original, and it’s great to read the original afterward if you can. But…

Anna’s Hour

This is the first story I ever sold. It was published in 2018 in Gods & Services, an anthology of stories about a mysterious junk shop selling artifacts touched by the gods. I recently realized that the story was well past its exclusivity period, and the anthology itself had actually gone out of print. So…

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