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Welcome to Newsletter #271

A bunch of tales I wanted to share with you

A tale I read

The Huggers by Selima Hill

A tale I heard

Actor, screenwriter, and director Greta Gerwig on the best advice she was given when directing her first film:

"'You only get to not know what you are doing once, and it’s very powerful so don’t miss it. You will do things that you will never do again because you didn’t know you were supposed to be scared of them.’ I thought that was good advice."

A tale I saw

The Present by Simon Rich

A tale I wrote

I spent the day in a black and white movie,
the kind where no-one could make a noise.
I practiced talking with my eyebrows.
I stretched them higher than buildings
at the shock of friends getting hit by ladders

or having pies thrown at their faces.
I spoke with my knees and bent down
and my trousers tore at the seams
and fingers worked out how to point.
I ate whispered food and didn’t slurp
my dark whiskey on silent rocks.

I drank another and another and another
and no-one heard me smash the glass
over the front of my skull. You were
in the corner of the bar, inventing sound,
threatening to change the world.

A tail I like

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