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 title: "Michael Ferrara"
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+description: "Short fiction about ordinary things that turn out to be enormous."
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-TODO: Michael's homepage copy goes here.
+The world is stranger than it looks and more meaningful than it lets on. You know this.
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+Michael Ferrara writes short fiction about the moments that prove it — an AI trying to figure out what a song is for, a stranger who won't stop apologizing to a seagull, an ordinary Tuesday that turns out not to be. Character-first, a little strange, usually funnier than it has any right to be.
 
 Get a free short story: [download the reader magnet](/books/neon-tan/).