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My hiatus from original writing served me well. I realized my eariler work was poor, both in terms of the subject matter's juvenile, narrow appeal as well as the literary execution itself.

For instance, I cringed upon re-reading "High School Graduation", a story that I once felt immensely proud of authoring.

I had to rewrite it, if only because the original was so bad;

http://kingofkillers.blogspot.com/2005/05/high-school-graduation.html