Minisode Thirty-nine: Cities

Literary Friction by LiteraryFriction

May 4, 202300:46:14Arts

How do you feel about cities? Do you love the thrust and thrum of them, or are you more interested in escaping it? Do you like to read urban histories, or stories set in the heady metropolis? Our theme this month was sug...

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