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Searching for Paradise, a Short Story by James Strauss
Searching for Paradise The fire was over but not long gone. The California Santa Ana kind of winds had blown through the town of Paradise with a blowtorch intensity, turning most homes to little more than cinder foundations and ash. I wasn’t coming home to Paradise in...![Matchless, a Short Story](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Foundry-Matchless-8-700x481-1.jpg)