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With Intent to Sell and Smoke
It was the end for me but only the beginning for Number 4
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Jeff Sykes
It Comes Back to You
Blake was seven when he began to realize the world was bigger than the parts he knew about.
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Mariah
“She brought some complete stranger home from a club last night, and left him here when she went to work,” Carmen said with near fury. “I got up this…
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Jeff Sykes
Live for that look
I’m dancing on the chair again.
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Get out of my Face
A working woman watches as two men sort it out
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This is how we do it
A trip outside Greensboro in 2015 leads to musical bliss
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Apostle Automation
First time I met him he called me “professor” and asked if I was one of those liberals who doesn’t believe in Hell. When I told him I used to write…
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Reflecting on David Joy
A look back at the author's first four novels
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Speedwell
I don’t miss Stephen. That word’s too soft. What I feel now is more like hunger with no object. Not for him, but for the girl who made the world bend…
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Echoes of Mercy
A scoundrel finds redemption when he breaks into a church.
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The Cloud and Her Mixed
Anxiety ran wild as Kyleena Bradley pulled into the gravel drive of Johnson’s Farm trailer park off Wayehutta Road.
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Promise unfulfilled: A critical look back at the death of Marcus Smith via 'I Ain't Resisting'
I found it quite impossible to review Ian McDowell’s book, I Ain’t Resisting, at the time of its release.
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