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Dec 14, 2025

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Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino (Annabelle Gordon / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In the four months since I moved to Paris, I’ve written three short stories,1 a poem, several other assignments for my MFA program, and dozens of pieces in the Substack-verse. It has amounted to 50,000 words. To quote Happy Gilmore, my fingers hurt.

I co…

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