Practicing

Practicing

Scavenging

Lynn Steger Strong
Mar 01, 2026
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If I told you everything has felt too terrible to write anything not-fiction, would you know what I was saying? If I told you the pronoun “I” becomes more and more abhorrent to me the more I write and age? If I told you the idea of “having something to say” sounds empty, absurd, embarrassing, would you also know that underneath that is the fact that I w…

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