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I focus on expanding stubs and start-class articles about literature.

My requests for reassessment

Articles I've helped upgrade to C-class:

The Glorious Heresies

A Place of Greater Safety

The Books of Jacob

Lolly Willowes

Manuals:

Manual of Style/Novels

Manual of Style/Writing about Fiction

Taskforces:

Short Story Taskforce

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Good Bones

By Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.

Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine

in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,

a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways

I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least

fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative

estimate, though I keep this from my children.

For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.

For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,

sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world

is at least half terrible, and for every kind

stranger, there is one who would break you,

though I keep this from my children. I am trying

to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,

walking you through a real shithole, chirps on

about good bones: This place could be beautiful,

right? You could make this place beautiful.