THE REDNECK WAY OF KNOWLEDGE: REDUX | Blanche Boyd | Substack

an excerpt from Children of Nod

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My Former Students, and Me

Having a literary legacy I didn't write.....

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GOLDILOCKS: A HAIR-RAISING SEQUEL

No subtitles allowed!

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TERMINAL VELOCITY

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THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGASM

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ZEN AND THE ART OF PARTYING, 1979

....2 years later I got clean and sober but that's another story.....

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