Every flu season, one (or several) of my editors asks me what the latest flu news is and if I have any “fresh takes” to offer. One year, while on staff at Newsweek, I casually mentioned that 1) I used to work in a vaccine factory, and 2) I had never actually gotten a flu shot myself. … Continue reading The Vaccine Factory
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This is just a little something I wrote for a class I took on fellowship. The assignment was to write a scene in roughly 800 words. I worked as a mouse tech for a few years before graduate school, and it was fun to revisit that world for this piece. *** Mark stood in front of … Continue reading To Kill a Mouse
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