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The Liar’s Knot

In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look . . .

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And another flash story! You can now read “The Me of Perfect Sight” at NewMyths.

03/19/2022

My flash story “Never to Behold Again” is live now at Daily Science Fiction!

03/17/2022

Two recent short fiction sales! “The Me of Perfect Sight” will be coming out this spring from NewMyths, and “Two for the Path” will be appearing in Shattering the Glass Slipper, an August offering from the anthology publisher Zombies Need Brains.

02/24/2022

From the Journal

New Worlds: The Uses of Slave Labor

The New Worlds Patreon will have to come back to the topic of slavery later, because there’s still more to say. But the last post for this month looks at a rather central question: just what were all of those enslaved people made to do? Comment over there.

05-27-2022 10:00 AM
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New Worlds: Slave Rights (and Lack Thereof)

As the New Worlds Patreon continues its grim survey of slavery, we come to the question of what rights, if any, slaves might have in a given society. Comment over there.

05-20-2022 10:00 AM
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Four Stages of Mindfulness

So there’s the idea of four stages of competence, right? Unconscious incompetence (you’re bad at something and don’t even know it), conscious incompetence (you’re bad at it, but you know that), conscious competence (you’re good and you know it), and unconscious competence (you’re so good you don’t even have to think about it anymore). The […]

05-16-2022 10:45 AM
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