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Crysta K. Coburn

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Crysta K. Coburn has been writing award-winning stories her whole life. Her first short story was published at the age of sixteen after winning runner-up in a local writing contest. She earned her bachelors degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University in 2005. She is a journalist, fiction writer, poet, editor, podcast co-host, and one-time rock lyrics writer.

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What am I Listening to?: Green Day's International Superhits!

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Because I am again sick of listening to ads every two songs on streaming services, and the USB drive I have plugged into my car is getting old (again), I dug through my decently sized CD collection and pulled out an old favorite: Green Day's International Superhits! (Yes, the ! is part of the title.) If you are unfamiliar, it was Green Day's first greatest hits collection that came out in 2001

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""The feeling of dread in my stomach blossomed in my stomach like a corpse flower."

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