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What Happened to Icarus
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featured authors

Kashawn Taylor
Author, subhuman.

Emilie Lygren
Author, Once I Was a Stone

Theodore Richards
Author, What Happened to Icarus

Matthew E. Henry
Author, Promises to Keep

Michael Curran-Dorsano
Author, Where the Dead Poets Sing

Rick Benjamin
Author, In A Shade of Green

Matthew Ellis
Author, Little Heresies

Ft Thomas Keating
Award-winning author of Open Mind, Open Heart

Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Author, Another Mother Does Not Come When Your's Dies

Rebecca Brenner
Author, Paper House
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