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What cell phones steal from our stories

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Ben Ulansey
Mar 12, 2025
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In college, I took a creative writing class in which the teacher instructed us to read the novel Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley. It was one of the professor’s personal loves, so raising a couple of critiques of the book when it came discussion day wasn’t spectacularly well-received. The biggest complaint that I had…

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