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March 9, 2020

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

I’m a huge fan of dystopian novels, although with the threat of COVID-19 creeping ever closer to me, it was a bit unsettling to read about a plague of sorts called the Tox that kept killing off or causing deformities in these girls stuck on an island in Maine.
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March 8, 2020

The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede

September 11th is a hard day for me. My father was working at the Pentagon at the time, and I spent most of the day thinking he had been killed. I was only 22 years old, fresh out of college and working at my first job, which I left in tears that terrible Tuesday morning as the jets from NAS Oceana screamed over my head on their way to protect the President in Washington.