Fiction

illustration of two hands holding a copy of the book The Let Them Theory
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Where Did ‘Let Them’ Come From?

Years before Mel Robbins published her best-selling self-help book, a struggling writer posted a poem with a similar message.

Moscow Nights

Since his parents’ divorce Jonathan ‘s mother had begun to confide in him—things he did not particularly want to hear

Two More Days

Alicia and Brian would soon be married—if she could overcome some personal misgivings about the wisdom of that plan