The Last Labyrinth
Alissa was forty-two years old and she had never once gotten lost in her own marriage until they moved to the village.
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Alissa was forty-two years old and she had never once gotten lost in her own marriage until they moved to the village.
*I wanted to write a story about a long marriage and the kind of play that keeps people alive to each other.
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Logic of Willow, The Autumn Epilogue, The Iron Horizon, Current of North
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