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I Thought I F***** Myself. Instead, I Wrote the First Two Pages.

It ain’t ten pages, but two pages is better than nothing.

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Xplisset
Aug 04, 2026
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I’m not gonna lie to y’all. I’ve got a George McFly in me.

Harold Michael Harvey’s comment popped up in my feed. He said he and his wife would be interested in publishing War After War through Cascade Publishing House, and before I could even sit with what had just happened, that George McFly, the nerdy character in Back To The Future who kept the science fiction work he’d been writing hidden from the world, jumped out of one of those Jack in the Box’s and started telling me how shitty this manuscript was probably gonna be.

As soon as I saw that, I freaked out.

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