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Literary – August 16

“Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.”

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., long-time fiction editor at The New Yorker, born this date in 1908.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must display a sunny exterior to conceal her/his internal disposition.

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