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“The Rachel Incident” by Caroline O’Donoghue
Rachel Murray is a twenty-one-year-old, tall (5’11, but to make it easier, she often says she’s six foot) woman living in Cork, Ireland. She studies English and has a crush on her professor. Her roommate, James, a closeted gay who works with her at a quaint bookstore, tries to help her attract the professor’s interest,
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“Tabula Rasa” by John McPhee
At the beginning of his “Tabula Rasa,” John McPhee recalls when he was invited to lunch with the famous playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Asked what he was working on, Wilder replied that he was cataloging plays of Lope de Vega. About four hundred and thirty-one plays by Lope de Vega survived, and Thornton Wilder
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“Murder at the Mill” by Debbie Young
Sophie Sayers, the budding writer working in the quaint Cotswold village’s bookstore, run by her boyfriend Hector, feels slightly out of place when she arrives at a writer retreat on a small Greek island. She didn’t plan on attending such a workshop, but Hector secretly entered her into a writing competition – which she won