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The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

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The Importance of Being Far Away From Civilization

Nora saw a wall of ice outside the porthole rising out of the sea. Pingrid was clearly telling this to someone she thought she knew reasonably well and yet Nora was a stranger. This must be the hardest bit about being a spy, she thought. The emotion people saw in you like a bad investment. Do you feel like you are robbing people of something? Pingrid smiled, breaking before. Anyway, thanks for last night. That was a good shot. There are a lot of dickheads on this boat and you are not a Dickhead. Oh, thanks, neither are you. And it was then that Nora noticed the gun. A large rifle with a hefty brown handle

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