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asakiyme.mrissa. I liked the direct sensory writing, and how it turned out. Yay agency!mrissa. Science-fiction about what it means to age well.headstone.I don’t claim particular expertise or authority on writing longform fiction, but it is factually true I have spent a lot of my one wild and precious life on it.
Recently, someone asked me how I edit. What am I looking for? How do I know what changes to make? That made me stop and think about what I’ve been doing semi-instinctually.
In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked.
BIBLE SPOILER ALERT: Eventually, the Israelites make it to the Holy Land, wage war and kill a lot of people, as commanded. They take the land– as God had told them to.
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Israelite conquest?
Didn't actually happen.
“Long covid looks exactly, and I mean exactly, like chronic Lyme.”
Michal “Mikki” Tal, MIT immunoengineer
In the study, the researchers found that endothelial injury tended to precede two common processes in cases of respiratory distress: significant alveolar-capillary membrane leakage, and intra-alveolar accumulation of fibrin (associated with blood clotting and wound healing).
Campbell said the results were not a surprise as disruptions to proteins involved in clotting could go hand in hand with disruption to cells that lined blood vessels. “The whole concept that a lot of these neurological conditions, including brain fog, could be treated by simply regulating the integrity of the blood-brain barrier is really exciting,” he said.
This zine aims to give a voice to the people, forced into continued 'COVIDing'. By describing day to day situations, concrete problems that might arise, we hope to show what living under these conditions can look and feel like. We hope that this illustrates our demand, as expressed in our previous zine, for a radical left that keeps taking this horrendous disease seriously and is willing to protect ourselves and our comrades.
shadarasjulian as a comment-gift on an earlier post.sophia_sol's rec post. Two young men, being loving and honest with each other, while coping with the strain of being immigrants and a special ability they share.sophia_sol's list.Don and Kathy would move in together. They would have a dog or two and then inevitably, a small parade of adorable little brats who would call him Uncle Cosmo, and they would spend less and less time with him, not on purpose but busy with the rest of their lives, and ultimately Cosmo would learn to make his peace with it because he’d have no other choice and he would have to try to move on and not live too much in his memories. He could picture it so clearly, he figured if the songwriting gig with Monumental didn’t pan out, he could always return to the backwater circuit with a new act: The Amazing Cosmo of the Cosmos—ladies and gentlemen, he sees the future, he reads the stars, he silently pines for his best married pal and all the while tap dancing!
Don and Kathy inviting him along on their honeymoon, though—that part was a surprise.
runpunkrun (ETA: nope!) but I couldn't find the back link.cofax, Narnia fic about Lucy and Susan that floated up on my network page.mrissa. On surviving being swept away by Progress in Singapore.soniasulaiman. This started in a folk tale pattern that was familiar to me, and veered to an unexpected ending.There was and there was not a poor couple who had between them only three lentils to eat. As the wife was cooking them a beggar came by and asked for alms. She looked at the lentils and fished one out and gave it to him. He thanked her and went on his way.
When her husband came home he was furious. “How could you give away what little we had?!” She reminded him that the beggar was even worse off than they were. “Still, if only we had the lentil!” he groused.
minoanmiss.marthawells.asakiyume posted a poem she illustrated verse by verse, and the whole thing is gorgeous. Go see!mrissa's 2023 Q1 list of short stories. marthawells. Unexpected and gentle, beautifully written.
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