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Jonas David is a writer living in the Seattle area. He is an editor at Lucent Dreaming magazine, and his stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Writing Disorder and others. Additional writing and info can be found at jonas-david.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @thejonasdavid.

there was a time when i would write about books

one might have even called me a book blogger. i look back on my old posts, and there they are: thoughts and opinions about the books i was reading. i appreciate remembering what i thought. it’s nice reading back through them. i wish I’d kept that up. at the time, though, i was disappointed with each one of my book posts, because no one, so it seemed, read them or cared. back then i would get likes

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Average rating: 3.78 · 64 ratings · 17 reviews · 5 distinct works
2014 Campbellian Anthology

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