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Original video and written works created by Dale Bridges as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic including the series "Diary of a Retail Worker" and "Unmasking the Virus: A Retail Diary of the Plague Years". Dale Bridges is a fiction writer, essayist, and freelance journalist. His writing has been featured in more than thirty publications, including The Rumpus, The Masters Review, and Barrelhouse Magazine. For several years, Dale was the arts-and-entertainment editor at an alternative newspaper called Boulder Weekly, where he wrote an award-winning humor column titled That’s Irrelevant. He has also won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his feature writing, narrative nonfiction, and cultural criticism. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize on several occasions, and his essays and short stories have been anthologized. His essay, “Off the Grid,” was selected for inclusion in Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net 2012. He lives in Austin with his wife and two cats. He is currently working on his first novel.

Video diary from Vagessha Khanna created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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