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July 5, 2022

🚀The Dark Age: Bricks and mortar

Hello, friends!

A few months ago I came across this tweet from Heidi Pitlor, who has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories for about 15 years:

Writers: you can almost always start later in your story or novel than you currently do.

In 2014, when I wrote “The Dark Age” in my Jeep in a library parking lot, I began like this:

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