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Short Story Saturday: “Emergency Skin”

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Today, I figured I’d look at another short story by N.K. Jemisin: 2019’s “Emergency Skin,” which was published on Amazon as part of a collection called Forward. Seeing as how the story is quite new, and thus not in the public domain, I wasn’t really able to find a link to the full text online. But the story itself is, like 2 bucks on Amazon (free if you have Prime), so it’s not really that hard to find.

Anyway, let’s get on with it.

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Short Story Saturday: “The Ones Who Stay And Fight”

Well, folks, last week I said I’d talk to a story written as a response to Le Guin’s “Those Who Walk Away From Omelas,” and that time has now come. Today, I’m going to talk about N. K. Jemisin’s story, “The Ones Who Stay And Fight,” published in the collection How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?

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