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“What good do your words do if they can't understand you?” – Erykah Badu Something I love about getting older is the freedom of distance. You can look back with...
Weird Girl Fiction
“What good do your words do if they can't understand you?” – Erykah Badu Something I love about getting older is the freedom of distance. You can look back with...
My high school history teacher stood with smug authority before forty kids he was supposed to educate and said, “No one in America goes hungry, unless they want to.” He...
Why it Matters When I Write About Space Janitors
My high school history teacher stood with smug authority before forty kids he was supposed to educate and said, “No one in America goes hungry, unless they want to.” He...
Welcome to another Words for Thought. Somehow, the calendar has turned over again. The end of one year and the beginning of another can be a time for reflection and...
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review
Welcome to another Words for Thought. Somehow, the calendar has turned over again. The end of one year and the beginning of another can be a time for reflection and...
In the Apex flash fiction contest, for the month of November, we read stories rising from the theme of ‘Folklore.’ While we received an abundance written from international perspectives, with...
Intellectual Colonialism and the Erasure of South and Eastern European Writin...
In the Apex flash fiction contest, for the month of November, we read stories rising from the theme of ‘Folklore.’ While we received an abundance written from international perspectives, with...
This essay is about generative AI, but I’m not here to shout about how unethical it is. I’m not here to rant about it being built on stolen work. I’m...
Not a Scab, But a Wound
This essay is about generative AI, but I’m not here to shout about how unethical it is. I’m not here to rant about it being built on stolen work. I’m...
Sharp chiaroscuro, snappy dialogue, actors with shadows delineating their faces—when we think noir, we tend to think film noir, from a small selection of canonical movies whose aesthetics and tropes...
More than Lighting: Speculative Noir
Sharp chiaroscuro, snappy dialogue, actors with shadows delineating their faces—when we think noir, we tend to think film noir, from a small selection of canonical movies whose aesthetics and tropes...
Just as humans share a great deal of DNA with every other animal on Earth, all literary genres contain similar fundamental elements. We know printed storytelling goes back centuries, but...
Dust, Stars, and Shadows: How Western Genre Literature Helped Shape Fantasy, ...
Just as humans share a great deal of DNA with every other animal on Earth, all literary genres contain similar fundamental elements. We know printed storytelling goes back centuries, but...