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Battle the Bard

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Notes from a fiction writer on faith, literature, and culture, plus some original creative work.

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About Peter Biles

Fiction writer. Author of What the Tree Saw (2026) and four other books. Words in Plough, Inkwell, The Dispatch, and others.

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