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Grape Soda As A Writing Tool [July 2024 Lightning Strikes 02]

Here's a healthy helping of over-thinking to start your day.

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jen harrington
Jul 11, 2024
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ESSAY: Grape Soda As A Writing Tool

Or, Finding freedom at the car wash.

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”  

Jack Kerouac

Photo by Brooks Rice on Unsplash

I’m drinking a grape soda and it’s hot out and I’m sitting outside at the car wash and smoke from an old man’s cigarette wafts over and I take a deep inhale and I feel… free.…

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