imagine / what it would be like / for one punished by the gods

knowing the world means dissolving its walls

The more of us stand together, the faster this change will be and the fewer people will suffer in the meantime. In what I hope is a quite obvious note: this is not me saying this. This is a known and ancient precept. There are people who think about this a lot in every time, in every culture. If you haven’t thought of this in a while, I ask to bump it up in your decisions. In your thoughts about “conflict”.

In the first audio episode of Writing While Disabled, Kristy Anne Cox is joined by author Kate Johnston to talk about her experiences and challenges as a disabled writer.

As the world seemed to shift and break around all of us, I found myself drawn to stories about rage, resistance, resilience, and even a bit of love. In “Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness” in Lightspeed, B. Pladek (who wrote one of my favorite 2024 stories, “The Spindle of Necessity”) spins a darkly funny and crushing story about a future where human-created fiction has been outlawed. Only content produced by “curators,” prompting an AI writing program called RIGHTR, can be shared with school children, and every story has to follow strict guidelines. It’s an idea that cuts