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New essay up at Pigeon Pages: “Roadmap to a Fire”

on February 24, 2020October 16, 2020 By Ashley Bethard

"What happens when we juxtapose? Do the unrelated become related based on their placement? Do they share energy, tossing it back and forth, creating a link where one didn’t exist before? I sat at the bottom of the stairs for a while and stared at my hands. I couldn’t remember the last time he told [...]

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