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The Nesting Doll Paradigm

Issue five: flash fiction by Nadia Born, with artwork by Margeaux Davis

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Mar 27, 2025
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This month, The Orange & Bee are publishing a traditional tale collected and translated by Katie Langloh Parker, a reading roundtable hosted by Carina Bissett, and new works by Rebecca Peng, Suzanne Willis, and Nadia Born.

Today’s piece is a flash fiction narrative by Nadia Born featuring a doll maker, and birds of prey.

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