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Since “ As They Always Are” was first published in Amazing Graces, Amber Sparks has continued to bloom in the literary world. As her Instagram bio boils it down for us: ghosts and death and fairytales and feminism. She does not shy away from the darkness of the human experience, but rather finds strange and unique ways to celebrate it. Because it carries her contemporary touch which pushes the reader to question tropes and assumptions. Her work carries echoes of ancient folk tales, which gives the reader a strange sense of nostalgia – have we heard this story before? Did our mothers not insist on telling us these words? No, certainly not. Millions of lights scattered across an expansive darkness reminding us of the simultaneous notions of possibility, and finality. Reading an Amber Sparks story is like reading the night sky.
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