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The Watchfire at Zero Degrees

“This conjunction,” Lillian said slowly, “isn’t about dreaming. It’s about disciplining the dream.
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The Uncanny at Saltward Farm: Thresholds, Storms, and the Dignity of Burial

To understand how the novel works — and why it lingers — it helps to revisit what Freud, Heidegger, and Jung meant by “the uncanny,” and how their ideas illuminate both the story and our own lives.
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The Comfort of Good Reasons

“I hadn’t lied,” Sylvia adds. “That’s what makes it interesting. I had simply chosen the explanation that made me look generous to myself.”
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On Authenticity, Freedom, and the Work of a Life

That arrangement, we suspect, is one of the subtler challenges of the twenty-first century.
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The Keeper of What Was Not Said

They stood there longer than was strictly polite, two women of an age when loitering attracts attention for reasons neither of them cared to correct.
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The Day the Light Paused
Outside, a single daffodil had come up far too early, bent at the neck as if embarrassed by its own optimism.
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A New Year’s Walk

“People think bells are for calling,” Sylvia said. “But the old ones? They’re for returning.”



