Tag: fiction
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I Want to be a Ladybug
The first thing I can remember wanting to be is a ladybug. Even as a preschooler, I understood the logistics of this to be questionable, but I had been reliably informed by teachers and family members that I could “be anything I wanted to be,” and I had no reason to doubt that assertion. A…
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How Getting a Book Deal Made me Quit Writing
I remember the day I knew I wanted to be a writer. I was in second grade. My teacher had—stop right there, you’re thinking. I didn’t come here to read about how your love of words developed; I want to know how getting a book deal (the end goal, the mia culpa!) could destroy your…
Erin Simpson 