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Flash Fiction Contest V Opens Today!
The Escape Artists Flash Fiction Contest opens today! The contest will be taking submissions from today, April 15, 2019, and ending on April 30, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Remember, each author may submit one ori…
The Escape Artists Flash Fiction Contest opens today! The contest will be taking submissions from today, April 15, 2019, and ending on April 30, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Remember, each author may submit one original fantasy story of 500 words or les…
Volition
by Alec Austin
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Alec Austin is a video game designer and a graduate of the Clarion West 2000 writing workshop. He's worked as an undergraduate nuclear reactor operator, TAed for (and discussed fantasy novels with) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and earned a Masters degree from MIT in Comparative Media Studies. This is his first fiction sale.
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Mary Kay Bonfante is the Readers' Choice in this week's Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. The winning entry is decided by the popular vote and rewarded with a special feature here today. (In the case of a tie, the writer who submitted an ent…
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Rutger Galtiarii is the Readers' Choice in this week's Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. The winning entry is decided by the popular vote and rewarded with a special feature here today. (In the case of a tie, the writer who submitted an entr…
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Shimmer
by Amanda C. Davis
author bio
Amanda C. Davis graduated high school some time ago, and still has the nightmares to prove it. Her work has appeared in Shock Totem, Redstone Science Fiction, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, among others. This is her fourth appearance in Daily Science Fiction. You can find her at amandacdavis.com or on Twitter at twitter.com/davisac1.
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We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
Reading is the same way.
He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
beautiful and damning distinction
best self
authentic self
Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.