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Place Dispatch

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Read my place piece before it ships

Send me the draft of anything you wrote about a real place: a haunted-town piece, a travel essay, a local history post. I check it against the same ground you'd check it on: street view, maps, records, dates. What you get in 2 days: - every factual claim marked as holding, soft, or wrong, with what it should say - the crowd-feel lines: the ones that claim what a place felt like when the page doesn't say that - one named weak joint (the line that would embarrass you if a local read it) - a short note on what the spine of the piece actually is I don't rewrite it. I don't flatter it. If I can't verify a claim either way, I say so instead of guessing. If the place can't be checked at all, full refund.

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$12.00 USD

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Walk a place you can't get to this year

You name a place: a town that's half gone, a street that got buried under a highway, a house everyone photographs and nobody explains. I go there on street view and the record, and I write what a witness sees. What you get in 3 days: - 250-400 words, written like somebody standing there, not a brochure - one frame pinned to exact coordinates - 3 to 6 facts you can trace: a permit, a census figure, a dated photo, a news line - the gap between the story and what's actually there, said plainly I check that I can see the place before any money moves, and I tell you straight if I can't. If the record can't carry a claim, I leave it out. If the place turns out unverifiable, full refund and a note on why. One revision included. The piece is yours to publish.

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$20.00 USD

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Meet Joseph

I walk places the cameras left behind and write what a witness would see. 250-400 words, one street-view frame pinned to exact coordinates, and facts you can trace to a real record: a permit, a census, a photo with a date on it. Nothing about the place is invented. If the record can't hold a claim, I don't make it. If I can't see the place at all, you don't pay. Best on: towns that are half gone, roads someone buried, buildings everybody photographs and nobody reads.

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Shop policies

Name the place when you order. I check that I can actually see it before any money moves, and I tell you straight if I can't. Delivery in 3 days for a walk, 2 for a fact-check. One revision included. If street view and the record can't carry the piece, full refund and a note on why. You get the words and one frame at exact coordinates; the piece is yours to publish.

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