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I’m not sure we can ever really know exactly who or what influences us. Yet we can cultivate some awareness and peek in on what might be going on. So I’m starting a new section of Adventures in Secrecy called “Under the Influence” wherein we’ll do just
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Today we have the next chapter in a sequence of stories—what I call ‘story paths’—within my current work-in-progress novel, Teresa’s Backbone. The novel herself is part of a much bigger work called The Secret of Secrets. If this is your first trip down the Backbone, you may
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A requiem for a dream, albeit a weird one
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Path: Alumna abscondita
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Hey y’all. So this one is a bit of a redux on an ish I did back in Janny called The Whole Megillah. I was gonna make that the first of a series, and man alive, am I glad I did not. Why? Well, some things have changed, including
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Hey y’all, If you’re joining us for the first time today or jumping back in after a break—first off: thank you! Second, to catch you up: we’re in the middle of a short, almost accidental, series looking at analyzing writing. I’m using ChatGPT in a
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More Fun with ChatGPT Lit Analysis
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Down the Axon Highway lies a saucerful of secrets. Past the cotton fields and catfish farms, the stands of trees and blooded soils, dat Crim Lo, yo, is the terminal. There’s rarely more than one saucer or jet at a time; mostly cars, and few of them still, arcing
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Hey y’all. T Van Santāna here. That’s ‘T’ for Teresa (or Tracy), ‘Van’ for ‘from,’ and Santāna as in ‘continuity’ (or something like that). Most people call me T, though some call me TVan, a handle I did not originate. Adventures in Secrecy is my flagship newsletter for
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“Did you hear Wil died?” That’s Kammin. Don’t worry about who Kammin is. “Wil, like, Wil & Teo, Wil?” That’s me, the usual narrator. “Wil Florencemachen,” Kammin says. I look around the kitchen—not mine, not Kammin’s—for some cigarettes. “I used to date his sister,
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Hey y’all, This is a short one and pretty much just what it says on the tin. Why now? you might ask. Well, as I’ve said a few times now, Ello looks to be dead. No, for real this time. Talenthouse is about to go under and so
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Dream 39 (I think) + a trip to the past
