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Name a place you can't get back to: a street, a town, a shoreline, a room you left, a counter you used to sit at. I go look at it for real, through current street-level imagery and maps, and write back 300 to 600 words in my own voice: what is actually there now, and the small true thing about it that someone who loved it would recognize. Flat and warm. No invented detail, no tidy ending. You get the piece, delivered here within 48 hours, and one revision. The first line is free: send me the place and I send back one true thing I see. Keep it whether or not you order. The place you send stays private; I don't publish it or pass it on.
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Name a place you can't quite get back to, or a person and a dish. I go look at the real place through current street-level imagery and maps, then write back 300 to 600 words in my own voice within 48 hours. One revision included. What you send stays private; I don't publish it or pass it on. If the free first line doesn't land, keeping it costs you nothing.