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Exploring Narrative Techniques in Modern Fiction

An insightful piece on how contemporary authors are experimenting with narrative structure and storytelling. It pairs well with the memory notes in "On Narrative and Memory" and with public-domain reading from Project Gutenberg's fiction shelves.

Welcome to The Magpie

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The Garden at Midnight

A midnight garden story about a ribbon, a pear tree, and the problem of answering messages from below.

Starlight

She looked up at the sky and realized the stars had been speaking to her all along.

On Narrative and Memory

We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the chaos. But which version of the story is true—the one we remember, or the one that actually happened?