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Wander Words by JL Tooker

JL Tooker

Wander Words by JL Tooker is a space for storytellers, deep thinkers, and curious minds to explore the intersections of wonder, reflection, and the written word.

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Old Surrender

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It spat back 63 topics.

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The Great Kelp

Author’s note: The Great Kelp began as a story written for a contest. Now that it has come home, I’m sharing it here with my own ink drawings—rough in places, perhaps, but unmistakably mine.


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Specimen X - Watching Orientation Emerge


Join me as I follow a thought through the act of creating.

Subject: a snippet of discovery-writing

Goal: watch how orientation forms

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