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#335 Stuck in Limbo

I’ve always considered the days between Christmas and New Year’s to be quite untethered. We find ourselves in a strange limbo, with one celebration fading out and the next still on the way. Oftentimes, routines loosen and everything seems to be suspended, waiting for life to move forward once more.

That in-between feeling is what we’re leaning into this week. Let something go wrong when it matters most, introduce something that suddenly changes everything, or let uncertainty linger to the very end. Resist neat resolutions so that your reader's left in that same unsettled pause... caught between answers, with just enough clues to wonder what happens next!

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