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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 30, 2022

I’ll Drink this Pumpkin Spice Latte Before Labor Day, But Only Because Demons Are Making Me

by Chris S. Burns
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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May 25, 2023

A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician

by Ashley Ingle
May 18, 2023

HBO’s Sensitivity Reading for Entourage

by Max Davison
May 19, 2023

You’re Going to Love Camping, According to Me, Your Outdoorsy Friend

by Emily Kling
May 18, 2023

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by Tori Multon

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by Jus Kaplan
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An Open Letter to My Breasts on Their Working Conditions and Recent Complaints of “Burnout”

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