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Miriam Richer

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writer & cohost of @craftworkpod.bsky.social

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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 4h
I'm honoured and excited to be an invited reader for CBC's 2027 Short Story Prize. The contest is open until Nov. 1, so there's still plenty of time to submit! www.cbc.ca/books/litera...
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Meet the 2027 CBC Short Story Prize readers | CBC Books
The longlists for the CBC Literary Prizes are chosen by a team of writers from across Canada. Meet who will be reading the submissions to the 2027 CBC Short Story Prize, which is open until Nov. 1.
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Hannah Colbert @tanglepretty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today's SFF story: Chlorophilia by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social. Love a gleefully gruesome tone and a character who is ALSO gleeful about the ghastliness. I assume spinningjenny is still thriving in the woods behind my old dorm at Bennington. augursociety.org/chlorophilia/
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Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn & Miriam Richer- Augur Literary Society
Mr. Blake: Please find attached the email correspondences you subpoenaed for the Bennington missing persons case.
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our new issue of Shirley Jackson Studies, with the very timely theme of "Shirley Jackson in an Age of Anxiety," is out now! Read below for essays and reviews by @miriamricher.bsky.social, @constructivedeath.bsky.social, @sadiehartmann.bsky.social & more: shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=668
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Shirley Jackson Studies - Shirley Jackson Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2: Jackson in an Age of Anxiety 01 "Comfortably isolated": Folk Horror and the Suburban Ideal in Shirley Jackson’s The Road Through the Wall By Miriam Richer 02 Tell It Again: The Anxi...
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, @mikethorn.bsky.social and I chatted with the inimitable @carolinebicks.bsky.social about combatting AI in the classroom, words clanging on readers' ears, the uniquely portable magic of fiction, and so much more. tinyurl.com/4b55uhpa
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Caroline Bicks is the first scholar to be granted extended access by @stephenking.bsky.social to his private archive. We interviewed her about Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King (one of the best books I've read this year). tinyurl.com/4b55uhpa @carolinebicks.bsky.social
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I interviewed @lukefrancisbeirne.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about ghostwriting, Cold War propaganda, and relearning to write after a five-week coma. tinyurl.com/2s3zm3md
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Went slightly overboard at the local book fair w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social (who practiced much more restraint than me). The Straub & King books are replacement copies.
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, in which @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Luke Francis Beirne about classic film noir, New Brunswick settings, collaborating with editors, and much more. tinyurl.com/3xhdbdx3
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I interviewed the brilliant @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We spoke at length about collecting pieces of lore, bringing levity to fiction, being "on thin ice" with our devices, and much more. tinyurl.com/325mv3fe
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the great @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social about cacophonies of voices, mercurial relationships with phones, Gordon Lish heads, and more. tinyurl.com/48fwkktn
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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Want to listen to two intelligent people and a goober talk about writing? Here you go. Miriam Richer and Mike Thorn are great hosts. Check out all the CRAFTWORK PODCAST episodes. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTmh...
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Worldbuilding, Aha Moments, & Writing for the Stage w/ S. P. Miskowski
YouTube video by Miriam Richer
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
ICYMI: @mikethorn.bsky.social and I had a riveting conversation with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social on the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We spoke about "earthy" writing, rendering dread on the page, the unanticipated weirdness of public selfhood, and so much more. tinyurl.com/cjv95742
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Check out the latest episode of Craftwork! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with the brilliant @michaelwehunt.bsky.social about the weight of dread, the erosion of truth in contemporary online life, and much more. This is a great one. tinyurl.com/cjv95742
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Also, in case you missed our @craftworkpod.bsky.social interview with the brilliant and erudite Hajer Mirwali... We discussed cross-disciplinary work, embodied writing, poetic mad libs, and a whole lot more. open.spotify.com/episode/4AUu...
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I chatted with @danielbraum.bsky.social about exploring the ecology of the supernatural, finding inspiration in liminal spaces, cultivating a sense of awe, and so much more.
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Read my first essay for @nightmare-magazine.com, "Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Hauntings Writings," which examines @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social's The Red Tree & @joycecaroloates.bsky.social's Jack of Spades as exemplars of 21st-century writer-centred horror. tinyurl.com/ym4xzvbp
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Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Haunted Writings - Nightmare Magazine
Throughout its history, horror literature has frequently mediated its eponymous affect through an obsession with the act of writing. The field is replete with writer protagonists, with depictions of t...
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My debut novel turns 5 this month! Nice words from writers I admire: “A full-bore, vicious death metal roar through suburbia towards hell.” — @gemmafiles.bsky.social “Superbly written.” — @laurelhightower.bsky.social "[A] coming-of-age story with teeth and claws.” — @spmiskowski.bsky.social
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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We could listen to Mike, Miriam, and Hajer talk poetry all day! 🤩
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New @craftworkpod.bsky.social! @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Hajer Mirwali, author of Revolutions (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2025). We discussed the influence of Mona Hatoum and Mahmoud Darwish, timed writing, the voice of the body & mind, and much more. tinyurl.com/bdnm5bsa
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Miriam Richer's review, "Citizens of Ulro: A Review of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead", offers a critical reassessment of the (anti-)anthropocentrism in Nobel laureate Tokarczuk's novel. @miriamricher.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
@mikethorn.bsky.social and I co-wrote "Chlorophilia" as a fun little diversion when we started dating. It's wild to see it in print at @augursociety.bsky.social! augursociety.org/chlorophilia/
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
recent thrift store finds w/ @miriamricher.bsky.social
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Miriam Richer & I co-wrote a weird, epistolary, cyber body horror story, which has been published in the latest issue of @augursociety.bsky.social! Thrilled to be included. 🍃🖤💀 Read here: augursociety.org/chlorophilia/ Full issue: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... @miriamricher.bsky.social
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Issue 8.3 features... ✒️ "On Fields of Purple Grass" by @ianli.bsky.social ✒️ "Tapetum Lucidum" by @nebulouswrites.com ✒️ "The Great Divide" by Meryem Yildiz ✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵
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Augur Issue 8.3 - Augur Literary Society
AUGUR ISSUE 8.3What do you desire from the natural world? For millions of years, we’ve been shaped and reshaped by the environment around us. If technology has the power to mimic lush lands and blue w...
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We've got 2 samples on our site! ✒️ “Rocky Mountain Gothic” by @evdatsyk.bsky.social, a girl in between the wild & human world ✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social, about metamorphosis, betrayal, & nature’s revenge READ NOW 👉 augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵
An illustration with a purple overlay of decaying purple and yellow tree branches that lead down to an opening. There are white birds flying around and on one of the yellow-purple branches are three people walking. In the top and bottom corners are purple branches and yellow leaves. At the top of the image reads: "contents." There is a black rectangle and inside lists the table of contents: "Observer Effect by Morgan Cross. Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King. Flame Weeding by Colleen Coco Collins. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk. Bonds of the Forest by Ally R Colthoff . Blueberry by Jade Riordan. On Fields of Purple Grass by Ian Li. Tapetum Lucidum by U.M. Agoawike. The Great Divide by Meryem Yildiz. Chlorophilia by Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer.”  At the bottom of the image is the augur logo and a link to the website: www.augursociety.org
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It was a pleasure to feature a dialogue with the incredibly talented Kasia Van Schaik on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about braided essays, the objective correlative, the "solitude collective", and so much more! tinyurl.com/mr3jacnp
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Another exhilarating conversation about craft! @mikethorn.bsky.social and I spoke to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, building writing communities, reading the comments section, and lots more. tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s
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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Listen to our our latest episode! In this interview, we chat with Jean Marc Ah-Sen about comic books, literary scenes, flipping the script on what a book can be, and so much more. tinyurl.com/tfs8vc8s
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
fit check (convocation happened) 🎓👨‍🎓🎓 @miriamricher.bsky.social
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It was an absolute treat to chat with the inimitable @ramseycampbell.bsky.social on our latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We discussed creative instincts, happy accidents, eerie children's tales, and a whole lot more. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn
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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Listen to our latest episode! We chatted with Ramsey Campbell about creative instincts, happy accidents, eerie children's tales, and so much more. tinyurl.com/5xau9djn @ramseycampbell.bsky.social
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It was a pleasure to have a dialogue with Michael LaPointe and @mikethorn.bsky.social on @craftworkpod.bsky.social. We chatted about navigating the pipeline between impulse and expression, breaking the genteel picture of literature, and finding liberation in failure. tinyurl.com/4urvw3mc
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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"Nothing human should be alien to us." - Gemma Files ❤️
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Myth, Fetishism, & the Horror of Living in an Allistic World w/ Gemma Files
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water. tinyurl.com/572zhet3
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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Emily Banks about posthumous publications, linguistic allergies, the atomic nuts and bolts of imagery, and so much more. @emilyabanks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/572zhet3
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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@MiriamRicher.bsky.social reviews Dead Writers, a new fiction project from Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum, which Richer calls "a series of literary case studies in the lies we tell ourselves in order to go on living": ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...
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Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers
Read Miriam Richer's "Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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Craftwork Podcast @craftworkpod.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Listen to our latest episode! We chat with Naben Ruthnum about character generation, TV brain, interpreting first-reader notes, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWE19NR @undertow.bsky.social
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Kathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I really love this @craftworkpod.bsky.social conversation because it could still be going on, rolling, curving, branching everywhere as it goes. tinyurl.com/4nef5hrr Thanks as ever to @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social
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Ecstasy, Ruin, & the Talent of the Room w/ Kathe Koja by Craftwork
In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more. Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction...
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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"If You Knew Me is a twisty, gripping psychological thriller that isn't afraid to raise the issue of morality. Are we victims or co-conspirators? A novel you'll be thinking about for a long time." - Alma Katsu, author of Fiend
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I had the honour of writing on DEAD WRITERS for @ex-puritan.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to read and review @invisibooks.bsky.social's mesmerizing collection of horror-tinged novellas. ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...
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Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers
Read Miriam Richer's "Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Check out my latest feature for In Review Online, "The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema." I went long on horror cinema's depictions of writers, focusing on Clarke's Exposé, Kubrick's The Shining, & Kurosawa's Loft. tinyurl.com/inrogoth
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The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema | In Review Online
A new film essay entitled The Pasteboard Masks of Text and Screen: On Writers in Gothic Cinema for film review site In Review Online.
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Very excited to share the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social, in which @miriamricher.bsky.social & I chatted with Sarah Bernstein about the abnegation of self, generating meaning, Fredericton memories, and much more. tinyurl.com/CWE18SB
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
OK, it's *really* available to order! Get your hands on THE WEIRD: A Companion, coedited by Kristopher Woofter & Carl Sederholm. Contributions from Thomas Ligotti, Eugene Thacker, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and many others! Also included: a new little piece by me. www.peterlang.com/document/132...
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very excited to announce that @augursociety.bsky.social will soon be publishing "Chlorophilia", a work of epistolary weird fiction that @miriamricher.bsky.social & I co-wrote together! 🖤🌿💀
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Contributor copies have arrived! Very grateful to be included. All sales donated to the indigenous Cucapa community of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Buy: tinyurl.com/2hx67s4d
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blackfoxlit.bsky.social @blackfoxlit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Issue #28 of Black Fox Lit is here! It's been a total privilege getting to read work by amazing writers then put them all together in one issue. We hope you enjoy #28! Cover by the amazing Britnie Walston! What do you all think? 🦊 blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/ #litmags #writingcommunity #booksky
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Contributor copies have arrived! Thanks to pulp MAG for publishing my new story, "Dread Robin."
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My new story "Hell is a False Abyss" is included in this anthology, edited by Juan Valencia, concept by @valeriecomplex.bsky.social. All sales go to the indigenous Cucapa community of Mexicali, B.C., Mexico. Also feat. @saderotica.bsky.social, Alissa Nutting, and many others. BUY: a.co/d/g8RHVDH
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Check out the latest episode of @craftworkpod.bsky.social for an engaging conversation with the wise, charming, and brilliant @spmiskowski.bsky.social. We chatted about Asian horror cinema, the power of grief, the relentless desire to shape the self, and so much more. tinyurl.com/CWS01E17
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Worldbuilding, Aha Moments, & Writing for the Stage w/ S. P. Miskowski
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Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We ( @mikethorn.bsky.social & I) learned sooo much about craft from the brilliant @fparker.bsky.social . I highly recommend "Hi, It's Me" (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social); it truly is ~ a heartbreaking work of staggering genius ~
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