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  • The February Blahs

    It’s mid-February and I’d wanted to have “Wretched Us, All In Rime” ready to publish to this site … but I didn’t. I probably would’ve had a blog post much earlier in the month, except for the fact that I didn’t want to make a second consecutive update of “hey, that story I mentioned last…

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  • We’re nearly two weeks into January and it already feels too late to wish everyone a happy 2026. Would that the news could be less awful, but here we are… That’s not an excuse for me to give in to my more despondent instincts, however. I have goals for this coming year, and I intend…

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  • Naissance

    Greetings! This is the beginning of my author platform, where I plan to post various short works of fiction and, perhaps someday, shill an actual published novel. Wouldn’t that be something? By way of introduction, my name is Marc Rivers and I live in the Portland, Oregon area in the United States. I primarily like…

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