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SciFi/Fantasy – February 18

Wallace Stegner, the novelist who launched Stanford’s creative writing program, was born on this date in 1937.

His novel The Big Rock Candy Mountain begins, “He was a strange child.”

Writing prompt: Finish the scene that begins with your protagonist’s mother saying those words.

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