First Breath
by Kimberly King Parsonsin 📚 Literature
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About Kimberly King Parsons
National Book Award-nominated author of WE WERE THE UNIVERSE and BLACK LIGHT ✦ Co-creator of The Fountain ⛲ ✦ 🫁 Unfucking my attention span one paragraph at a time 🌊 I teach fiction in the MFA program at Pacific University
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