Hamrick called a meeting in the back room of the office…
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Chapter II. Three Trees
As soon as awareness came to him, he was simply there…
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Chapter I. A Missing Pixel
Yesterday, on his birthday, Erlon Rivers was mistaken for a ghost…
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Charleston & the Caribbean Connection
Charleston’s foodways, language, folklore, art & architecture, and history are all evidence of a connection to the Caribbean that shaped not only the city itself, but the entire South as a region, and the nation as well.
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Revelation & Reckoning:
Trials with Gender, Shame, and Trauma
This is my attempt to be recklessly, unabashedly open about what has probably brought me more shame than anything in my entire life.
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That one took a lot longer than I expected.
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Epilogue: The Patients of a Saint
“You want me to go in with you?”
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Chapter XI. Epithalamion
It was late afternoon when Devin arrived at Laurel Oak…
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Chapter X. Lamar Alone
Lamar did not answer Devin’s calls or texts the week that followed the art walk…
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Chapter IX. A Scent from Beyond the World
On third Fridays every other month, the city’s French Quarter galleries opened doors to anyone strolling in off the streets…
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Chapter VIII. Rivers Meet
She didn’t tell Lamar what she had actually seen in the woods till later that evening, in his studio…
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Behind the Mask:
An Enneagram Analysis of the Star Wars Saga
Like Vader, we all hide behind masks that protect us from the harsh, sometimes toxic outer world; and as with Vader, healing means learning to remove the mask, to return to and reveal our truest selves.
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Chapter VII. The Rescue Dog
“If we’re going to do this,” Lamar said, “the best way is by water…”
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Chapter VI. Seafoam
Ron Holbrooke was strangling her…
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Chapter V. Maybank
Dark eyes, half-hid by the glare on his wire-frame glasses, and a bristly white mustache…
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