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The Syntax of a Stranger in His Pocket

2 min read · Anonymous · Premium

2 min read · Premium

I spend nine hours a day reading other people's lies. That is the job they don't print in the brochure. You teach Steinbeck and comma splices, but mostly you learn to feel the seam where a real voice ends and a borrowed one begins. After fifteen years in a high school English classroom, I can smell a machine the way some people can smell rain coming.

So I should have known. Maybe, on some level, I already did.

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