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Thin Places: Stories

by Kay Chronister (Goodreads Author)

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Borges and Me: An Encounter

by Jay Parini

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The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners

by Edward P. Jones

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Jason’s Quotes

“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
― Leonora Carrington (Down Below)

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“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935

tags: chocolate, dessert, humour

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“Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.”
― Joy Williams, The Changeling

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“Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.”
― Joy Williams, The Changeling

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“Children were quite disturbing really. It was difficult to think about children for long. They were all fickle little nihilists and one was forever being forced to protect oneself from their murderousness.”
― Joy Williams, The Changeling

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