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Essays
The first of these publishes soon. Each will link to its original publication; full texts are not reproduced here.
Data RoomForthcoming
A man who has always had protection cannot price what it costs to go without it.
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About
Penelope Brayton is not my name.
I taught school. Then I built a company for the children I had taught, sold it, and went to work for the people who bought it. I work there still. That last sentence is the reason for the first one.
What I can tell you, I tell completely. The essays are memoir — nothing invented, nothing sharpened for effect, no one combined into anyone else. What I cannot tell you is anything that would name a company, a firm, a lawyer, or a buyer. So there is no employer here, no geography, no dates, and no photograph. It is a strange way to introduce yourself. It is the only honest one available to me.
My identity and every fact in this work can be verified in full, confidentially, to any editor or agent who asks. The offer carries no conditions. It simply cannot be made in public.
More essays follow. The name will make sense by the end of them.