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  • Sic transit fabulae 🙁

    One of my favorite childhood legends is the story of Jews who wanted to make the world feel the pain of Holocaust viscerally, and so planned to poison a small German town, but gave up this plan because they would not become murderers of children. Turns out it’s not true. Nakam (Vengeance) did exist, but……

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  • And Day Brought Back My Night

    I always liked this poem, but did not know that it had an epigraph nor that it was referring to Milton’s sonnet. Geoffrey Brock Whoever she was now kissed me, Her lips like ice on my own; I woke from the nightmare sweating – Burning, freezing, alone. And Day Brought Back My Night It was……

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  • Rachel Neumeier

    Just finished Winter of Ice and Iron and four books in the Tuyo series – Tuyo, Tarashana, Keraunani, and Tasmakat and can now say that I know enough about this author to not read her books again. Her world-building is really good, and she answers all the more obvious questions that occur to one when……

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