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Damn man happy fourth to you too

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[insert emoji of burnt hot dogs & fireworks gone wild]

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For real though very gripping and interesting read, I was hooked immediately. near-future dystopian quasi-fiction is the new true crime

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thank you my friend. i like playing with this genre, this story was also inspired by Carmen Maria Machado's "Inventory" which is a true masterpiece of near-future dystopia that still feels immediate and contemporary: https://lithub.com/inventory/

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Great story telling, and all-too predictable future for the US if we do not get a handle on this fundamentalist backlash. This is a battle for freedom, and must engage us all.

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Thanks for the kind words, Tim. It's truly a scary site to see from afar, and consistently baffling in its predictability: a puritanical state falling from its illusory graces, only to rear its true face as the fundamentalist zealot it's been all along. Alas, history keeps repeating itself.

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Wow, this is powerful

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Thank you Elle. It was one of those stories that came to me quickly and I needed to finish quickly. As I mentioned up above to Alex ^^ Carmen Maria Machado's "Inventory" was a big inspiration, highly recommend her work if you don't already know it: https://lithub.com/inventory/

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Oh amazing, thank you!

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👍

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Btw, how did you use different fonts in the same post?

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when you're doing a post you can click the " < / >" symbol, which turns text into a cool typewriter script (I think it's for coding, actually, but this ole writer knows little to nothing about coding)

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Wow. Thanks for the cool tip. Sadly, I don't think it will work on my blog since it's already in the mono font .😂

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Haha ahh, that's a pickle. You can always play with the heading offerings, but otherwise your best bet for a clear textual difference is the classic bold or italics. Enjoyed reading a few of your pieces, keep on keeping on. Also saw a fantastic Thai possession/horror film recently, "The Medium," was quite interestingly done

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wow is the least and the most i can say for now. and i’d like to thank you for “her dad did his best to help her straighten her hair in the back.” as a girl raised by her dad, i realized the gap left by absent mother when he had to curl my ponytail for a theater performance and picked up the barrel by the hot iron. willing to brand himself with “conair” backward on his hand if it meant helping me at all.

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Wow! This story needs a wider audience, especially at this time!!

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amazing story. beautifully written.

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Thank you my friend

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Samuel, this was powerful and beautifully written. Thank you.

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Thank you Angela. I was on vacation at the time when the ruling came in and within two hours I had written most of it ... I often find with more politically-charged pieces like this, they lend themselves to visceral emotion versus drawn-out thinking. Sometimes the gut reaction is the most authentic

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