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This is an island I’d to share with you. It may give you a taste of the novel.
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No-one alive or in living memory has seen this island. No one ever will. No one is even sure there is an island, but there seems to be no other way to describe it. The location does not move with the tide, nor do its effects change by the weather or season. No one can get close enough, quickly enough, to see if it Read more of this blog post »
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Published on December 07, 2025 06:23 Tags: borges, debutnovel, italocalvino, speculativefiction, weirdfiction
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