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Fear of Loaning and Lost Pages
By Kallie Weisgarber

Set the scene. You're out to brunch with your best friend. Maybe there are mimosas involved, maybe not. Who am I to say? You are catching up from the last week or two since you two have had a chance to get together. They tell you about their work woes and their landlord who is jerking them around. You tell them about how the road to your workplace is somehow ALWAYS under construction lately and the most recent book you've read. 

And then it happens. The...

Happy Friday Worms! Let’s chat for a bit about Shirley Jackson. You might know her as “that lady that wrote that Netflix show I like.” But I know her as the author of The Lottery, a short story that made me scared of the small farming town I lived in growing up. She lived a just a short 48 years, but she wrote over 200 short stories, 6 novels and 2 memoirs (and I can’t even get the laundry put away). She wrote The Haunting of Hill House (yes, that Netflix...

"Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about."

Gwendy Peterson is a slightly chubby 12 year-old girl nicknamed "Goodyear." Yes, because of the blimp. She is set out to lose weight before she starts middle school, so she runs up a steep set of stairs every day that are known as the Suicide Stairs in the town of Castle Rock. During one of these runs up the killer steps, she meets a strangely charming man by the name of Richard Farris. Wearing a small black hat that will come...

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