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Short Story: Trigger Warning Part 2 of 4

An author whose novels offend some readers to death has a crisis of conscience

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Simon Dillon
Feb 09, 2024
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Part Two

We left the Bodleian library and returned along Cornmarket Street, eventually settling on a little café in St Aldates, near Carfax Tower. John seemed kind and gentlemanly to a fault, but I was naturally wary of him, as he was a stranger. Still, what harm could this do? I was in a public plac…

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