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orbitbooks.net - 1/27/2009

Twitter Fiction

— orbitbooks.net — Jeff Somers — author of The Electric Chruch, The Digital Plague, and the forthcoming The Eternal Prison... — is tweeting a short story, a few lines at a time. the sense of vastness that the open, undeveloped property conveyed—he felt unreal, ... (more) Twitter Fiction

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