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9 Short Stories by Egyptian Women, in Translation
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The Oh-So-Poetic Roshambeaux of Rome in the Thunder Dome: A Rise to a Fall.
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The story of Rome is one of civilizations greatest epics. One of humanity’s greatest successes. And perhaps even greater failures. And thus, all at once perhaps its most tragic. In just over 500-centuries what began as a humble village, just a salty sea breeze away from the Mediterranean, calcified into a peal, a nucleus upon…
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Prologue to a Memoir: A Rough Draft, a Novel, a Working Confesson.
A strange thing happens when you begin to contemplate the end. It’s as if setting such a definitive goal opens the world to endless possibilities: a phone is buzzing,
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Opening lines: A Story About Identity, Revolution, and What it Means to Be a Modern Human. A Work in Progress #LiteraryFiction
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Excerpt from The Outsider: A Memoir? “The sky out my window is that fiery red which makes the heart swell with life and there it is again: that sensational expanding within my chest, rising to my throat, gripping and stinging my eyes.”
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One: I Could Kill Myself | Two: I Could Go To Africa –scene from The Outsider, A Novel.
Author, Authors, memoir, novels, The Outsider, Travel, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, traveler, writingAfrica, arts matter, depressed, depression, journal, literary, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, make it happen, memoir, mena, mental health, middle east, Morocco, novel writing, novelist, passion project, self love, story of my life, travel, Travel Blog, travelblog, travelblogger, writer, writers life*unedited from rough draft (The Outsider: A Novel) I woke up one morning in a state of complete despair and found myself debating the absurdity of carrying on like this when I had options. They were clear as day and night and manifest out of who-knows-where: One, I could kill myself. Two, I could go…
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