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A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock
The story behind the story
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
Holographic emotion: part 1
Emotionally Honest Fiction tackles the iceberg
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
The view from the event horizon
We die in pieces
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
2

March 2024

Dispatches: Barefeet (Podcast!)
What I learned from planting all ten toes in the dirt
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Dispatches: Barefeet
What I learned from planting all ten toes in the dirt
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
2

February 2024

Writing Emotionally Honest Fiction: Introduction
A different kind of writer's guide
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
4
The re-release of Love Is the Drug, 10 years later
A tale of two pandemics
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
3
The dog portraits: Xochi, the godmother.
Her gaze made me flinch.
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
2

January 2024

The water rushing in
We all make a choice
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
2
Follow the rat
The cure for dismissal is dismantling
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Alaya Dawn Johnson

December 2023

Dispatches: The slower world
I hadn’t realized that slow people had their own things, too.
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
1
Dispatches: The olfactory inspires
Sniffing my way through a process journal
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
2
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