this one isn't sci-fi AND doesn't have giant robots?! sometimes I write other things 🙂‍↕️ fun fact: I wrote this for @maryrobinettekowal.com's short story cohort! the prompt? write a murder mystery and this story was the result! I hope y'all enjoy it when it does release (at some point in the future)!

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happy almost-Halloween, I'm flailing!! contract signed, I'm pleased to say my vengeful fantasy short story, "Growth and Decay", will be published in the future at @lightspeedmagazine.com 🎉 what if you were friends with a forest god who was murdered—and what would you do when you found who did it? 👀

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There are plenty of *clever* pop-culture heroes, but very few who are genuinely wise, and not just some platitudinous fortune cookie simulacrum of wise. Who combine unbending principle with a recognition that many choices are hard & morally ambiguous, yet need to be made all the same.

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Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

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The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...

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