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Reading like a writer is not the same as reading like a normal person. Normal people read for pleasure. Writers read with the same hungry, slightly unhinged gleam that a raccoon has when it spots a picnic basket full of secrets. “Theft is the sincerest form of storytelling—just ask the bards, the playwrights, and whoever…
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The painting was impossible. That was the only word for it—impossible. It wasn’t just the unsettling subject matter or the dizzying details woven into the canvas like secrets begging to be whispered. It was the fact that, by all logic, it shouldn’t exist. And yet, there it was, hanging in the dimly lit corner of…