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“‘Don’t you think you’re being unreasonable here?’ Locke demanded, running his wrist across his chin. It was still bleeding, though it seemed to have slowed. ‘No.’ The answer was as simple and succinct as his next punch.” It’s really hard to believe that this round of A Round of Words in 80 Days is nearly…
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“‘Yes, some people died. But let’s not pretend these are the first people to die in the interests of commerce. Let’s not pretend there’s a company in this room that hasn’t had to put profit above human life at some point. We make cars we know some people will die in. We make medicine that…
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Today, it’s my birthday! Everybody loves me on my birthday! As a gift to myself, I’m taking the day off from the blog; I’m only using it as an opportunity to look at where I’m at. Aged twenty-seven and all I have to show for it so far is two published short stories about Communist…
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“100 Malicious Little Mysteries” selected by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander This collection….is not a good collection. There were maybe a handful of stories of the 100 that I would have considered genuinely good. The others were all too quaint, tried, and predictable, and (possibly due to the fact that there…