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I look out over Downtown Soma, and it reminds me of my hometown. No, not the City of Rivers and not the Jung. Further back. The one my folks are from. Blackwater, it’s called. That one. At then end of the millennium, it flooded. Blackwater flooded. The entire city
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Story paths: me & you, dreams
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On the use of force
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Like coffee drips.
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I’m lying on the floor of Mall’s posh office, about five hundred stories in the sky. “We have a couple of colonization problems,” she says, her bare feet up on her huge desk. “Well, yeah,” I say. “Obviously. And, like, way more than a couple. It affects almost
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You plead with me not to introduce Oxenberg Rassmuellengeri into this book, seeing as how we already have so many characters, and most readers can’t keep up with more than, say, three to five characters at a time. And I’m like, Fine fine fine. I’ll leave him
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So most of y’all know ‘bout National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) cos you’ve either done it yourself or listened to me drone on about it year after year. But in the unlikely case you haven’t heard of it, I wrote about it last year: And it’s
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Where the sun shines on your face without fear of cancers. The ground calls to be worked, and the work is good. You are a man and a woman. You are alone, but there is no loneliness. Sometimes folks come by. The fruit is good, and the other animals are
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An alternate on-ramp for this novel
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“You seem really lonely.” Well, I am. Or was. “There are too many characters.” Fuck off. “It’s too vague, and it’s cold. It’s very cold.” You know that one from Eight. “These people are deplorable, and I don’t give a shit about them.” Well, they loved
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In November, 2023, my first (completed) novel, Everything Fails, will be ten years old. Most writers hide their mistakes—or want to, anyway. Or, shit, I dunno. Maybe the writer doesn’t care, and it’s the publisher. Whatever. The thing is, you’re not gonna see most of the
