Challenge Accepted

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Two Shots

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Sounds Familiar

When you’ve written more than 1,100 observation posts and your primary environment is your home office with windows overlooking the backyard, the same things will occur to you. I was about

Cutesy Marketing

An HVAC company that is named after a musical instrument has an anthropomorphized version of that instrument painted on the back of its truck. The instrument is smiling as it says, the sweet

In Conversation

An author described her book as in conversation with several other books. Hers is loosely an epistolary novel and it speaks to other books of similar form.