A black-and-white cartoon set in Washington Square Park. A street preacher stands on a soapbox with a QR code on the front and a tip jar beside it. He leans forward mid-speech, gesturing toward two passersby walking on the same plaza stones: an NYU student in a sweatshirt and backpack, and a tattooed young woman carrying a guitar case covered in indie band stickers. Both look skeptical. The Washington Square Arch appears lightly in the background. Caption below the image reads: “Repent… or at least subscribe to my Substack.”

10 days ‘til Christmas and a busy week ahead. Tough waking up to sad news from Hollywood, where I spent many years as a writer. Violence sucks.

On to #WashingtonSquare. The message is eternal but you can only find it behind a paywall.

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You be the lion, I'll be the hare. On trading vulnerability for tenderness

New post on Substack, on trading vulnerability for tenderness plus some of my neurotic thoughts

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Labor Day PSA: the best beach read could be the free fiction you stumble upon on Substack.

Look around and let a new author keep you company this weekend.

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Nero: Almost Touching A rainy Tuesday in Georgia.

New post on Stepping Inside titled, "Nero: Almost Touching", filed in #marginalia. #writersonsubstack #writing #prose

The Moon has always been my confidante. She spoke to me. Not in words In that peculiar rhythm the cosmos keeps When it's trying to keep you alive. WHAT THE MOON TOLD ME IN THE SOFTENING BLOODBONEANDGHOSTS.SUBTACK.COM| FRANCEASCA

“No grand gestures needed. Honest pauses shape who become next.”

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Some truths don't arrive as thunder They slide in sideways Under your ribs On nights when you mistake Surrender for silence. WHAT THE MOON TOLD ME IN THE SOFTENING BLOODBONEANDGHOSTS.SUBTACK.COM | FRANCEASCA

“The soft shifts — that sense when you’re not who you were, still not yet who you will be — are powerful.”

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Clandestine Affairs, Part Nine Ani finds something unexpected before her big mission.

Last week, I broke through some major writing roadblocks and finally wrote another chapter of Clandestine Affairs.
(I have four more coming, so get caught up now!)

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