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#MiseryPit - A pitch event focusing on Mysteries, Thrillers, and True Crime for the #writingcommunity and #Booksky authors. Hosted by @jocelynegregory.bsky.social Next event: February 1st, 2026

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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And that's a wrap for #MiseryPit!!! Thank you everyone who pitched, liked, shared, and gave support! There will probably two more pitch events, and like in past years (how is this the third year!?), it should happen in summer and early December. Until then! Thank you and see you soon!🕵️
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Final stretch! Less than an hour left till the end of #MiseryPit!
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Good evening pitchers! There's roughly two hours left to pitch! Get those #MiseryPit pitches in!
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If U like Heated Rivalry, you'll love Love and Lust a Legionary Romance. Castra Vetera's top doc Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller they find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #MiseryPit #A #HS #T #Q
Two soldiers in the legionary baths.
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Psychics gather@Pompeii's gladiator's school, awakening the ghosts of the untimely dead - spirits tied to where they died. Homeless boys, surgeons, whores, patrician women & their gladiator lovers share their last days in Thirteen -- a polyphonic novel. #MiseryPit #A #T #HS #Q
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Beyond the Gate - Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can wed. Unwilling 2 wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gate w/the other 'wives' when an officer dissappears. Who killed Quintus & why? #MiseryPit #A #T #HS #WF #Q
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#MiseryPit #A #F #T #Spec #Q Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol Invictus.
The moon rises over the ruins on Mt. Olympus, as Roman General Germanicus and some Praetorians chat and Aoife, the Britannic witch looks on.
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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
COOP KNOWS THE SCOOP X BOB’S BURGERS: #MG kids on bikes adventure in 2 timelines: 1995: Friends find out their parents were in a band together & search for their hit album. 2025: Their kids hear about said album & go on a quest to find the lost recordings. #miserypit #W #HM #CM
Clockwise from top left: Led Zeppelin, the kids from Bobs Burgers,the suburbs, vinyl records and Thanksgiving.
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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
IT X THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD: Max finds 2 photos, taken years apart & quests to unravel the mystery of the girl in the pics & her link to 7 missing girls while tangling w/ the eldritch horror their crazed cult leader murderer unleashed on the world. #miserypit #YA #CT #Q #CM
Clockwise from top left: a girl dancing in the woods, a creepy house, a fire monster, creepy forest, a black bird and an abandoned factory.
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John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
THE FORTxBOBS BURGERS: 1988. Suburbia. 13 yo Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a secret mansion & uncover a conspiracy that threatens more than their neighborhood. #miserypit #MG #SFFT
Clockwise from top left: the cover to The Crystal Shard, a hedge maze, a mansion, the Hellfire Club, a space suit and the suburbs.
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Good evening #MiseryPit pitchers! We have about 5 1/2 hours left of #MiseryPit! Still time to get those pitches in!
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Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Home was the system that broke them. Years later, the people who built it are forced back together—not to fix what went wrong, but to decide who they’re willing to become now. CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY. #A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit
On-screen text reads: “Home. The word struck like a hairline crack in a glass floor—barely visible, but fatal if tested.”

Additional text across the collage reads:
“Either find a way or make one.”
“THE SURGEON OF SILENCE.”
“we do terrible things for the people we love.”
And near the bottom: “We both knew what we were making. You don’t get to walk away clean. You don’t get to shoot the past just because it came back wrong.”

The image is a dark, multi-panel collage showing surveillance data, military dog tags, armed operatives moving through corridors, weapons, and fragments of technology. A central figure is seen from behind in low light. The overall tone is tense and somber, emphasizing moral consequence, loyalty, and the cost of survival within violent systems.
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hello pitchers! We are now halfway through #MiseryPit! 12 hours left to pitch your mystery, thriller, and true crime manuscripts!!
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alan anarchy @alananarchy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"A Heart in Pieces" is about Jess Harper, a junior at Longview University. One night while Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play, she finds a dead body. Which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses? #Miserypit #A #Q #CT #RT
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hello #MiseryPit pitchers! We are nine hours into pitching! Keep them coming! 🕵️
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alan anarchy @alananarchy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Fear Street x The Secret History While Jess is walking home from her audition for the school play she finds a dead body. When her friends begin turning up dead she wonders which of the ten-thousand students at Longview is turning members of the student body into corpses. #Miserypit #CT #RM #RT
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Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
She built a system to stabilize trauma. It rewrote people instead. A surgeon returns to the blacksite she fled, knowing the only way to stop it is to dismantle what she made—and accept what can never be undone. CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY. #A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit #AmEditing
On-screen text reads: “You don’t stop wildfire by naming it a threat. You decide whether you’re willing to be the ground it crosses… or the ones it leaves behind in ash.”

Below it, a quoted passage reads: “Ghost-code didn’t stabilize minds. It rewrote them. Thread by thread. Thought by thought. Until what came out the other side wasn’t a person anymore—it was an echo wearing their memories like clothing.”
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The image shows a person in dark clothing seen from behind, partially in shadow, holding a rectangular object in one hand. Their face is not visible. The background is textured with torn paper and faint, unreadable text, resembling redacted documents. The overall tone is somber and ominous, suggesting loss of identity, ethical violation, and psychological erasure.
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Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A 📝 of my #MiseryPit posts for THE SURGEON OF SILENCE 🩺, a 98k Speculative Thriller Fiction (currently editing).
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Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
She built a system meant to heal. It kept running after she left—and learned how to hurt. When a blacksite reactivates, a trauma surgeon returns to dismantle it, forcing everyone involved to reckon with what survival cost them. CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x SOME DESPERATE GLORY. #A #CT #WIP #MiseryPit
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Jasmine Writes 📃is querying @j-c-wood.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A search for a missing girl turns into something more sinister when a journalist is caught up in a terrorist attack. Implicated and with no choice but to go on the run, Kit seeks sanctuary with the terrorists, unable to return home until proven innocent #MiseryPit #NA #SFFT #Q
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Safah @safahamjad.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The Miles Between Us, which features: ✅ a crime story with deep emotional resonance; ✅ an exploration of themes like grief, racism & identity; ✅ ordinary citizens stepping into investigative roles; ✅ MCs who seem worlds apart, and are yet so similar; ✅ a romantic subplot. #miserypit #A #WIP #CT #CM
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Dyamond_Writer @authorinspirations.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#MiseryPit #A #PSYT #WIP Don't Hide from Me Thirty-four-year-old, Emma Gelberbaum lives a carefully curated, isolated life in a smart home she designed herself—cameras, locks, voice assistants—all under her control. Or so she thinks... Deep down, she fears someone might be looking for her...
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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The Last Year of the War x Team Yankee x The Plum Tree When World War 3 breaks out Sadie, a college journalism student, finds herself thrown into a camp on American soil. Can she survive the horrors that permeate the camp or will she succumb to the darkness? #W #NA #CT #MiseryPit
Black background

Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. 

The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. 

Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. 

The middle left picture us a tank in a field. 

The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. 

Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel

The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. 

The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.
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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Red Dawn x Tomorrow When the War Began x Lord of the Flies Caught behind enemy lines when WW3 breaks out during their school trip a group of students must face a harrowing journey that's filled with danger to make it to safety and stay alive. #W #YA #CT #MiseryPit
Top left photo is people camping in an open area by hills and a waterfall with the title in orange We Were Students. Below that is 10 jets flying in a v formation in the sky. Then a quote with a white background and orange lettering “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Below are people on a trip type bus with a quote, “In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier of every world.” - Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams. 

Top right photo: a group of students high school age in front of a school from behind.
Below that are people camping in a forest. Below that with a river running over rocks background is a quote, “War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who remains.” R.F. Kuang. Then at the bottom is 3 pans cooking food over a fire on a grate.
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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Here's my list for #MiseryPit 1. We Were Students #W #YA #CT 2. The Girl Within #W #NA #CT Feedback is welcome. #FDT #FICE #StandUp #Writingispolitical
Top left photo is people camping in an open area by hills and a waterfall with the title in orange We Were Students. Below that is 10 jets flying in a v formation in the sky. Then a quote with a white background and orange lettering “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Below are people on a trip type bus with a quote, “In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier of every world.” - Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams. 

Top right photo: a group of students high school age in front of a school from behind.
Below that are people camping in a forest. Below that with a river running over rocks background is a quote, “War doesn't determine who's right, war determines who remains.” R.F. Kuang. Then at the bottom is 3 pans cooking food over a fire on a grate.
Black background

Top left picture is of the fence and two buildings in Auschwitz. 

The top right is of an Auschwitz building with fall dead trees in front of it. 

Then in white font with teal edging it says the title The Girl Within. 

The middle left picture us a tank in a field. 

The middle right is the front of a large boat and a smaller boat on water. 

Then there's a quote that says "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take side." - Elle Wiesel

The bottom left picture is a blonde girl in a brown jacket and a black press vest that says press in white. She's standing in front of a tall brown building with lots of windows. 

The bottom right pic is a crowd of protesters in front of a building.
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Good evening/morning #MiseryPit pitchers! 🕵️ This is a reminder that the event runs for 24 hours until midnight February 1! So lots of time to refine, edit, and work on those pitches! Happy pitching! #booksky #WritingCommunity #authors #mystery #thriller #truecrime #pitchevent
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Haven Lopaz | Editing @silenthisper.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Anyone willing to swap support for #MiseryPit? Comment and I will add you to my list! Also, it would be my first time. Any tips?
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hello writers on Bluesky! Get those thrillers, mysteries, and true crime manuscripts ready for #MiseryPit! The next event will be February 1st, 2026 and will run for 24 hours starting 1 am Sunday morning and ending Sunday midnight (PST). Check the pinned tags, please share, and happy pitching!
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Attention pitchers! Thank you all for your pitching during #MiseryPit! This was the first year anniversary of the event and it's been amazing to read and share people's mystery, thriller, and true crime pitches! The next event will be February 1st, 2026! Until then, keep writing!
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Avri @nycavri.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
WIDOW AT THE WINDOW A dark, personal tale of sex, death and betrayal in New York City shortly before the fall of the Towers. Steeped in turn of the 20th Century nightlife below 14th Street. #MiseryPit #A
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Avri @nycavri.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
THE LOVELY LONG AGO Accident, suicide or murder . . . ? The rock scene of early 90s Brighton (England) is shaken by the death of a student. A slice-of-life nostalgia trip, revolving around a legendary club. #MiseryPit #A
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you everyone who has pitched so far in #MiseryPit!!
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Good morning #MiseryPit pitchers! This is a reminder that #MiseryPit will be running until midnight tonight! (PST time) So get your #thriller #mystery and #truecrime pitches in! For more details about hashtags, please check the pinned post! #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Good morning #MiseryPit pitchers! This is a reminder that #MiseryPit will be running until midnight tonight! (PST time) So get your #thriller #mystery and #truecrime pitches in! For more details about hashtags, please check the pinned post! #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky
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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#MiseryPit is running until midnight December 2! Go go go!!
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Ghede (Said G'day) is querying and writing @ghedefx.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
When 5% of the dead reanimate, the most violent are immediately culled. The remaining are trained to do the jobs most dangerous to humans. At Camp Reclaim, Mo must prove their worth to survive a brutal system that strips away humanity piece by piece. #WIP #A #H #MiseryPit #writingcommunity
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Ghede (Said G'day) is querying and writing @ghedefx.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
BLACK MIRROR x MURDERTRENDING Mandate for Leadership: a collection of 11 political horror short stories inspired by the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 playbook. This is political horror, nothing supernatural going on, and no monsters other than the government. #MiseryPit #Q #A #H #DT
in order top left to bottom right: Surveillance camera hidden in a mural of an eye; shadowed fingers typing; Protest imagery sign 'The system has failed us'; soldiers almost obscured by darkness holding rifles; graffiti 'if you think this is bad you should see what the government is up to; Marching boots; religious icon statue praying inside a fence; woman running from police lights; Protest imagery Flier 'They think we're sheep bare your fangs' accompanied by wolf picture
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Ghede (Said G'day) is querying and writing @ghedefx.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Welcome back to 'life' as one of the 5% who reanimate after death. As a new Zedizen, you train at Camp Reclaim to suppress feral instincts, work in fields deadly to humans, and survive a world that fears you. You’re no longer human—but not yet a monster. #MiseryPit #writingcommunity #wip #a #h
Top image is a rotten zombie that seems to be running toward you.  The lower image is of a seemingly calmer, less rotted, young woman zombie with pale eyes
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Bea 📖 🖊️ is querying @beaamade.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#Q ACE OF SPADES xGLEE x DO REVENGE—Dual POV When Adelina’s bestie Jo vanishes from a showcase after scary stalker texts, she teams up with rival Adam to investigate—only to discover Jo never existed Just who are they trying to save & why’s Adelina the next target? #MiseryPit #YA #FM #RM #ND #POC
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Bea 📖 🖊️ is querying @beaamade.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#Q ANASTASIA x AND THEN THERE WERE NONE #MiseryPit #YA #FM #RM #POC #ND 🪄🩸The curse says only the “worthiest” magical heir will survive 🔒🔪 Locked room monarch murder mystery ✨🪦 Horror magic trials test each heir ❄️❤️Cold, aloof love interest who secretly shields 🫂♥️ Found family 🌪️☠️ killer twists
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#MiseryPit #A #F #T #Spec #Q Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol Invictus.
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Ghede (Said G'day) is querying and writing @ghedefx.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#writingcommunity #Q #A #H #DT #MiseryPit Mandate for Leadership: a collection of 11 short stories totaling 43,000 words that are all focused on the horrific possibilities inherent in the Project 2025 playbook the Heritage Foundation put together for the next administration. COMPs: Black Mirror
black and white Cityscape.  Title white over red: Mandate for Leadership  Subtitle white on black: A collection of short stories based around political horror  Text black on white: Mandate for Leadership is a 43000 word anthology of 11 interconnected short stories exploring the chilling consequences of policy gone wrongUpper Image: The cover for the novel #murdertrending featuring a line of 5 people simply drawn.  The middle person has been beheaded.  Lower Image: A cracked screen with a smiley face cracked into the glass in the middle and the words Black Mirrorupper image is a 3 stack featuring a cartoon render of a bureaucrat and image of a clothed pregnant belly and something that appears to be a decrepit dorm.  lower image: A deserted classroom
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Contemporary psychics gather@Pompeii's gladiator's school, awakening the ghosts of the untimely dead - spirits tied to where they died. Homeless boys, surgeons, whores, patrician women & their gladiator lovers share their last days in Thirteen -- a polyphonic novel. #MiseryPit #A #T #HF #Q
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Roxanne Gregory @roxannegregory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#MiseryPit #A #F #Historical #Thriller #W Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can wed. Unwilling 2 wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gates w/the other 'wives' when an officer goes missing. Who killed Quintus and why?
A legion soldier overlooks a valley. A Roman woman walks away. They are tied by a heart she has woven. The legionary fortress gate is long and there are barbarians armed with axes outside.
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Two new tags! #WFM Women's fiction Mystery #WFT Women's fiction Thriller
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#MiseryPit @miserypit.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Attention #MiseryPit folks! Due to the host (me) being sick and sleeping for most of the day, #MiseryPit will be extended until midnight Dec 2! Go go go! #writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #writersky #pitchevents #author #litagents #editors #mystery #thriller #truecrime #writing
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