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Chris S. Burns

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Chris S. Burns is a fiction and science fiction author and a librarian and lives in San Francisco. You can find him at chris-s-burns.com.

August 11, 2022

A Welcome Letter to the New Adjunct Faculty Members Who Will Be Laid Off in December

by Chris S. Burns
November 25, 2020

Quotes from My Mother About 2020’s Thanksgiving Dinner, Except Also from Albert Camus’s The Plague

by Chris S. Burns
September 22, 2020

Critical Theories of the Pumpkin Spice Latte

by Chris S. Burns

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July 29, 2022

Thank You for Calling the Perimenopause Hotline, Where Our Hold Times Are Completely Unpredictable

by Kathryn Baecht
August 5, 2022

An Open Letter to the White Mommy Blogger Who Posted a Recipe for Turmeric Energy Balls

by Swati Sudarsan
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How to Log In to the Student Portal

by Janine Annett
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Memo Regarding New State Teacher Qualifications

by Brittany K. Fonte

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