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The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead

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Paul Crenshaw
Apr 12, 2024
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A couple of years ago I wrote an essay titled "Choose Your Own Adventure For 80s Kids." ” It’s an essay about the collective fears those of us who grew up in the 80s felt, such fears including nuclear annihilation, Satanism, and board games, and it’s the first essay in my new book, Melt With Me.

But it began because I was thinking about quicksand, my fav…

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