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First Paragraph

Here’s the first paragraph from what I’m reading now. I, Julian Fabius, an advocate for discretion in all things, should have known better. Take that as a given. But even the best shield can drop with age, weariness, and wine and the truth is I would like my epitaph to be more impressive than “He […]

First Paragraph

Here’s the first paragraph from what I’m reading now. I burst out the screen door, bare feet on gravel. Twenty feet ahead, my mother runs toward the dark woods, her red housedress trailing like a cape. She couldn’t take another minute inside our house. She couldn’t take another minute inside her head. From House Of […]