"I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction."

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"Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)-Gandalf came by."

"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."

"Are you naked?" he rasped out. Swallowing hard, she nodded."

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