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Jonas David

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Website

http://jonas-david.com

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Fiction, Contemporary, Horror

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Jonas David is a writer living in the Seattle area. He is an editor at Lucent Dreaming magazine, and his stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Writing Disorder and others. Additional writing and info can be found at jonas-david.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @thejonasdavid.

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one weird trick to get away with any crime

me, having robbed one million dollars from the bank: ‘The bank stole a million dollars from me! they’re framing me by accusing me of what they did! it’s my money, I was trying to deposit it!

a million dumbasses who think ‘the truth is always in the middle’ flying to my rescue: ‘these are both extreme points of view, the truth is probably that no money was stolen by anyone, or maybe only a few doll

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	2014 Campbellian Anthology by M. David Blake (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction), Ania Ahlborn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Alisa Alering (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maps and Rooms: Writing from Wales by Jannat Ahmed (Editor), Samiha Meah (Editor), Jonas David (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucent Dreaming #8 by Jannat Ahmed (Editor), Jonas David (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joachim Buur (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 34 (InterGalactic Medicine Show, #34) by Edmund R. Schubert (Editor), Jonas David (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
― Frederich Schiller

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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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