You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When th…

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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages. ✨ Zadie Smith (2005). Martha and Hanwell, Penguin Hardcover
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