The Writer

What the future holds

When the pandemic began, I dove into this magazine’s archives, desperate to see what my predecessors were publishing in the throes of the Spanish flu outbreak a century earlier. Unfortunately, every author in the volumes I found seems to write merrily about everything under the sun except a deadly global pandemic.

I did find, however, Hazel Miller’s wickedly reference another deadly global event that caught my eye: The first World War and its ending just two years prior.

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