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Main Character Energy

As a kid growing up, I thought by 25 I’d have my whole life together.

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Unstuck

I have been a clinical psychologist for fourteen years.

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It Should Have Been You

I have to kill my sister.

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Friday Barnes 13: In Plain Sight

Three hours later, Friday and Melanie were on a flight to Oslo. Ian was not with them.

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A Beautiful Evil

The king of the Gods demanded a beautiful evil - and so I was born.

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Rytual

Hers was the second dead body I’d ever seen, not counting my mother’s.

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Wandering Wild

I’ve never feared dying.

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Broken Brains

‘Jamila, your scan shows a lesion on the brain,’ the doctor explains.

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Heist 1: The Great Chocolate Caper

This particular tale begins right at that moment when all things begin, which is when you don’t actually realise that something is about to begin.

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The Girl and the Ghost

‘Let’s buy a chateau’, they said . . . ‘It’ll be an adventure’, they said . . . ‘You’ll meet a prince’, they said . . .

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The Next Conversation

Not long after uploading my first video, I started to receive messages—thousands of them.

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The Fourth Trimester

The fourth trimester is rough, but beautiful. Challenging, but rewarding. Exhausting, but fulfilling. Indefinite, but short.

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How To Love Better

We met quite young, both of us still finding our footing in college, but as soon as we were in each other’s gravity, Sara and I felt an undeniable pull that kept bringing us even closer together.

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The Tell

I ran. I ran in the mornings and in the afternoons, and I ran at night.

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The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death

My earworm for today is ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by the Boomtown Rats.

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Where the Birds Call Her Name

Saskia Honeyman would look back on her mother’s death and see that it had the cadence of an exquisitely orchestrated sonata.

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Wild Dark Shore

I have hated my mother for most of my life but it is her face I see as I drown.

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