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J. Nelson Jr.

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I scrawled my first story when I was eleven: a handful of loose-leaf pages, a boy and his best friend finding treasure in their backyard. There was this evil lightning wizard who fit into the plot somehow, and at one point, our heroes rode awesome hoverbikes with laser cannons.

(I watched a lot of Lucas and Spielberg at a formative age.)

In fact, I consumed tons of fiction growing up, and most of it was the same as what I like to write: explosions, romance, feats of derring-do…

But then, there were the special ones: the SFF that transcended genre, that took all the tropes and pithy lines I loved and infused them with the pathos I thought could only be achieved by names like Shelley and Steinbeck. Those stories stuck. And inevitably, I got it
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“Much Madness is divinest Sense -
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“His heart has a draft. It lets in light. It lets in storms. It lets in everything.”
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“Some people keep their heart tucked so deep, they hardly know it’s there. But you, you have always worn it like a second skin. Open to the world. You feel it all. The love and pain. The joy and hope and sorrow. It will make your life harder, but it will also make it beautiful.”
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