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You live in a sea of stories. Maybe you’re writing, speaking back to the world. Maybe you’re reading, listening, watching, taking them in, in conversation and through the pummel of advertising. It’s possible that the stories we tell are being projected onto your being, stories of the “other”... I feel that, at times. Some stories are vibrant and alive. Others are cliché, hanging around like zombies of days past…

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Author of Clown Girl, The Stud Book, and The Folly of Loving Life. Short work in The New York Times Modern Love, Paris Review Daily and more. Find her on Substack at Words Shape Lives.