Radio FreeWrite
By WebEater, Murph, The Lotus, Krispy, Spud, PC Nottingham
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Episodes: 182
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A podcast for lovers of stories- reading them, hearing them, and writing them. We provide a new prompt every week, then share the stories we have created from that prompt. We discuss the stories and the art of storytelling while encouraging listeners to create their own stories along with us.
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Acheri: What Writers Should Read (Or Listen To), From Frankenstein to Beowulf
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Bowels of Mercy: The Cru Write Horror à la Shirley Jackson
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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150th Episode Celebration: Mouthbreather
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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149: Craft Workshop: How Writers Edit Drafts (Their Own and Each Other’s)
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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148: Fanfaron: Writing the Pluperfect Tense Without Sounding Forced
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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147: La La Land: A Conversation With The Whisky Type
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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146: Hygge: Tips and Tricks for Writing a Vibe
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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145: To Take An Ell: Our Writers Hate Marketing (Yet Ironically Announce a Live Ep)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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144: Nemo me impune lacessit: POV experiments
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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143: Neolithic Age: Third-Person Omniscient, Explained
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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142: Rabelasian with Johna from Booking It!
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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141: Gardy Loo – The One In Which Krispy Got (Sort Of) Married
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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140: Flivver: Staying Motivated and Avoiding Creative Burnout When Confronting Writer's Block
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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139: White Flag: Author Olivia Snow on Writing, Outlining, and the (he)Art of War
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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138: Nursery: The Sweet Spot of Third Person Limited
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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137: Amulet of the Ages: Board Game Storytelling with Bruce Glassco
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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136: Creaky Hallway: Second Person POV (and some "Choose Your Own Adventure")
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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135: Dark Dice: The Power (and Pitfalls) of First Person Narration
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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134: Jinn: The Cru Write Mahfouz
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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133: Mountains of the Moon – Submissions, Rejections, and Writing to the Guidelines
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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132: Ca’ canny – Setting and Achieving Your Writing Goals
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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131: Batrachomyomachia – Reflecting on Writing Goals & Poetic Experiments | Radio FreeWrite Season 4 Finale
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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130: Propaganda – How We Steal Writing Tricks from Other Authors (feat. Sandwich)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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129: Queensbury Rules – Practicing Dialogue That Doesn’t Sound Wooden
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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128: U and Non‑U – Using Dan Harmon’s Story Circle to Jump-Start Plotting
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May 26, 2025 |
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127: Ganymede – Building Writing Community with Literary Cleveland
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May 07, 2025 |
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126: Ephesian – Building Writing Community & Embracing Critique (feat. Calil "JUST C.O.S." Cage)
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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125: Yellowback – How We Approached Genre Fiction and Tropes
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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124: Proteus – Revising Poetry & Balancing Editing with Creativity (feat. J.W. Surface)
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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123: Wildcat – Untangling Plot vs. Story (While Forgetting Who Goes First)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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122 Everything Tastes of Porridge – Building Worlds Through Myth & Religion
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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121: The Old Man on the Mountain – Journaling, POV, & Character Voice
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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120: Eblis – Writing Convincing Villains (Without Loving Them Too Much)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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119: January – Writing for Joy, Not Publication
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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118: Jaywalker – Maps, Worldbuilding, & Accidental Giant Trees
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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117: Idunna – Writing Rituals, Music, & Getting into the Zone
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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116: Triumvir – Guest Iron Brewed on Flash Fiction & Writing Process
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Minizode #5: Why Do People Write?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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115: Zucchetto – Writing Sound Effects & Playing with Language
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Minizode #4: After Acceptance
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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114: Cleveland Museum of Art – Finding Story Inspiration in Visual Art
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Minizode #3: How to Imitate an Author
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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113: Unhinged – Picking Which Drafts to Polish (and Which to Cast into the Fire)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Minizode #2 - How to Read as a Writer
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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112: Hunky Dory – Writing Nonfiction, Reflection, and the Tools We Avoid
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Minizode: How to Make Time to Write
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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111: Season 4 Premiere:The Inklings – How Critique Groups Make (and Break) Writers
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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110: Vesta – Writing Fire, Hearth, and Domestic Myth
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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109: Fiasco – Why We Love Writing Characters Who Fail (feat. Amber of Tadpole Press)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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108: Curmudgeon – Writing Grumpy Narrators & Lovable Jerks (feat. Stuart Miller)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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107: Lares et Penates – Writing Physical Spaces that Feel Real
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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#106: Altargana: A Mongolian Song
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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#105: Anatomy of a Story, Part 3: How to End a Story: Meiosis
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May 31, 2024 |
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104: Subpoena - Anatomy of a Story, Part 2 – The all Important Middle
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May 10, 2024 |
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#103: Anatomy of a Story, Part 1: Beginnings: Corpse Coins
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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102: Neap Tides – Plotting vs. Pantsing
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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101: Buggins' Turn – The Homogenizing Effect of Trade Literature
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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100: Krampus – 100th Episode Live Celebration
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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99: Potato War – Making the Most of a Writing Session
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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#98: Cinematic Storytelling: The Land of Nod
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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#97: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, with KC Woodruff
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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#96: The Cru Write Steel: Hallmark
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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#95: Improving Yourself and Finding Self-Confidence: Bareleveling
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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#94: The Joys of Pulp Fiction: Zorro
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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#93: The Cru Write Lispector: Berchta
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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#92: Christmas Decorations
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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#91: Consistent Character Creation: Minos
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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#90: Selkie, with Sandwich
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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#89: The Raving Poet
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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#88: Ariadne, with Woz Flint
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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#87: The Cru Write McCarthy: The Shroud of Turin
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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#86: Hook, Line, and Sinker, with Chelsea Burton Dunn
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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#85 To Paint the Forth Bridge, with J. W. Surface
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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#84: Making "Fetch" Happen, with Willow Vincenty
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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#83: Brekkie Eppie: The Story Engine
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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#82: First Drafts as Blocks of Marble: To Go Off at Half Cock
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#81: Crafting Suspense: The Dipper
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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#80: Golders Green, with Tim Marko: the Power of Constraints
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#79: Precision and Pitfalls in Word Choice: Weasel Words
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#78: The Challenges of Writing Comedy and Humor: Dot and Carry One
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#77: Bête Noire
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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2023 Summer Sessions #1
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Summer Special Release: Mummified Moon
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Season 2 Recap: The Best of Murph
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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#76: Season 2 Finale
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Season 2 Penultimate
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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#75: Redemptioner
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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#74: Transmigration of Souls, with Tee Zee
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May 26, 2023 |
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#73: Asmodeus, with Arm
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May 19, 2023 |
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#72: Ladies' Night: Shangri La
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May 12, 2023 |
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#71: Fiddler's Green
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May 05, 2023 |
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#70: Niflheim
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#69: Riff-Raff
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Zion FreeWrite
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#68: King Lir, with J.W. Surface
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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#67: Qaf, with Spud
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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#66: The Cru Write O'Connor: Eye Candy
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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#65.5: St. Patty's Day Freewrite (and also Rumpelstiltskin part 2)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#65: Rumpelstiltskin
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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#64: Galley Proof, with YYC Typewriter
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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#63: Pandemonium
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#62: Catawamptiously Chawed Up
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#61: The Cru Write Morrison: Shrovetide
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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#60: The Cat Among the Pigeons
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#59: Eisteddfod
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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#58: Concierge
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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#57: Midnight Lorry
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#56: Achates, with The Bartender
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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FreeWrite #2: Welcome aboard, Fifth Beatle (and Happy New Year!)
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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#55: Lucy (A Merry Christmas...murder?)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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#54: The Cru Write Churchill: The Irony of Fate
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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#53: To Be Born Under a Lucky-- Or Unlucky-- Planet
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#52: The Art of Ryan Fishley
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Thanksgiving Freewrite
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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#51: False Bride
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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#50: The Grateful Dead, with Richard Polt
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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#49: The Cru Write Hopkins: Eavesdropper
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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#48: Huginn and Muninn
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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#47 Aqrabuamelu
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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#46: Banshee
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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#45: Goblins
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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#44: The Cru Write Rushdie: Ouroboros
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#43: Thaumaturgus
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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#42: Scrimshaw
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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#41: Silvanus
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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#40: Molotov
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Episode ReRelease: #28: The Cru Write Chekhov: Abide With Me
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions: Adirondack Files #3
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions: Adirondack Files #1
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions #5
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Episode Remaster: #18: The Cru Write Thompson: Damsel in Distress
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions #5: STORY WARS
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions #4
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Episode Remaster: #22: The Cru Write Woolf: Tantalus
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions #3
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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'22 Summer Sessions #2: NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest, Round 1
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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FreeWrite #3: Summertime!
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#39: Season 1 Finale
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Diamonds in the Rough
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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#38: The Bulwer-Lytton Contest
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#37: A Waiter, an Object of a Crush
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May 27, 2022 |
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#36: The Cru Write Borges: Death by Inches
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May 20, 2022 |
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#35: Parandrus Redux
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May 13, 2022 |
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#34: Chaneph
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May 06, 2022 |
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#33: The Cru Write Adichie: Aigrette
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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#32: The (Cruel) Fates
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#31: Birds of Paradise
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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#30: Calamity Jane Part II
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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#29: Calamity Jane, Part I
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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FreeWrite#2: A Post-St. Patty's Intermission
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#28: The Cru Write Chekhov: Abide With Me
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#27: Swan Maidens
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#26: Janus
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#25: Empyromancy
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#24: Scarab
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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#23: Carpet Knight
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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#22: The Cru Write Woolf: Tantalus
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#21: Zounds
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#20: Jog
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#19: Rupees, Annas, and Pies
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#18: The Cru Write Thompson: Damsel in Distress
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#17: Tarzan
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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#16: To Gird Up One's Loins
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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#15: To Go the Whole Hog
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#14: The Cru Write Vonnegut: Hogmanay
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#13: Zeitgeist
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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FreeWrite#1: A Thanksgiving Intermission
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#12: Caurus
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#11: Harum Scarum
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#10: Hole in the Wall
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#9: The Cru Write Tolkien: Echidna
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#8: Parandrus
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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#7: Caladrius
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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#6: Brekkie Epie: Mandrake
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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#5: Couch Potato
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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#4: Norwich
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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#3: The Grim Reaper
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#2: Slubberdegullion
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#1: Monkey Business
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Introduction
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Soft Launch 2: Jitterbug: Radio FreeWrite Gone Wilde
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Soft Launch 1: Jabberwocky
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Aug 13, 2021 |