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THE WRITER'S ROOM
Short Story News Cycle Series
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"Lines to Cracks" is the second story in a series by author Mikaela Brewer, exploring key issues in our national and global news cycles. Storytelling via fiction can carry us somewhere, change our minds, remind us of who we are, humble us, and carve a space to see our collective, intertwined connection in a way that moves us toward liberation-focused action.
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BOOK REVIEW:
Crush
by Richard Siken
"Oliver's description alone of animals and the forest behind her childhood home is enough to cast this collection of essays on your radar for the upcoming spring. As February leans heavily on the topic of relationships, Oliver uses her adoration of the natural world to better recognize her relationship with herself in a devotional understanding of self-love and acceptance."
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