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Finishing a first novel teaches you something quietly dangerous: the world doesn’t stop when the book does. Once that door opened, other stories began pressing at the edges—not sequels in the mechanical sense, but continuations of questions I hadn’t finished asking yet. Different settings. Different tones. Different kinds of silence. All orbiting the same curiosity…
