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      <image:title>Eric Peterson - Eric Peterson is a novelist and playwright. His plays include an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Seven Strangers in a Circle (nominee, Best Play, Washington Theatre Festival), and Smoke &amp; Mirrors. He has been a regular contributor to Letters from CAMP Rehoboth and NBC Out, and cohosted The Rewind Project, a podcast about old movies and modern times. He was named a finalist in the 2022 and 2023 Saints + Sinners Short Fiction Contests for his stories, “Little Boy Blue,” and “Banjo,” respectively. Loyalty, Love, &amp; Vermouth is his first novel.</image:title>
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