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A melange of short-form fiction, essays, and some occasional poetry inspired by social and cultural issues of the day.
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The Orphidean - Index (opens the original)
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The Orphidean (opens the original)
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Read Chapter One“‘Randa! Don’t wander too far! Your mother and I haven’t finished surveying this zone!”Eight-year-old Soranda Thewlis was too smart and curious to let her father’s sense of caution squelch her desire to explore. The atmosphere was breathable. They wouldn’t be collecting data on resource availability, life forms, and other factors that might affect a future colony if it had not been. She was smart enough to wear a rebreather that filtered out any po
The Incalculable Muse (opens the original)
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The saddest part of the GenAI fad, and I do think it is a fad, is that the cheerleaders of the movement (who somehow can’t believe that other people have the capacity to write coherent narratives thousands of words long without chatGPT) will never understand or feel the particular joy inherent in engaging the creative process. They haven’t engaged in the act of creation themselves. They have asked a machine to simulate it on their behalf. It is the difference between being intimate with another
The Orphidean (opens the original)
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Author’s note: I had originally written this as a short science fiction story, experimenting with the idea of an unsympathetic protagonist. As I finished I realized there is so much more going on that I could easily spin into a short novel. I decided to publish it here and release new chapters in the manner of a serialized novel (how Dickensian of me!). I plan to add another chapter every month or two until it is finished. Enjoy!“Welcome to Kjaturang Colony, Free Labor Cooperative. Your future,
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