My lot is a hovel

August 4, 2025
|By Spencer Spalding

“My lot is a hovel compared to a villa such as this…
If my work was truly blessed by the gods, I wouldn’t need apprentice wages just to survive.”

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"I strive to be the type of man that my father would have respected, that my mother can be proud of, that my sisters can look up to, that my friends can tell their sons to grow up to be like, that my future wife’s parents can tell their daughter that they’d be happy to bring me into their family, and for my grandfather, may his soul rest in piece, that he would look down upon me with admiration at the man that he raised from just a little boy."

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Spencer Spalding is a novelist and poet from San Francisco, California. He received his Bachelors of Arts degree in Ancient History from San Francisco State University. His studies focused on Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, their architecture, their art, and their works of literature, which eventually lead him to pursue a minor in Classical Studies. He used the skills he learned from his professors to read the classics in their ancient scripts in an effort to better understand epic literature and its impact on the world.

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