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[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was...
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[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 23, 2008.] There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would...
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I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a...
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