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“It [quiet speaking] was a way of moving about the world, my father’s way of moving through the world. It was a survival strategy for a recent immigrant to a new continent of opportunity, a land of possibility, to the science fictional area where he had come, on scholarship, with nothing to his name butContinue reading “Survival Strategies”

In chapter 12 of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, it caught my interest when Charles Yu described the difference in worldly perspective of the people in his father’s home country in comparison to how his father viewed the world. Describing the country as “a different part of the planet, really, aContinue reading “Home v. Immigrated Country”

“Neighborhoods fell to the militants in startlingly quick succession, so that Saeed’s mother’s mental map of the place where she had spent her entire life now resembled an old quilt, with patches of government land and patches of militant land. The frayed seams between the patches were the most deadly spaces, and to be avoidedContinue reading “Violent Spaces (Structured)”

“She looks at the phone and wonders who Parkaboy is. Other, that is, than Parkaboy, ascerbic obsessive theorist of the footage. What does he do when he’s not doing this? She has no idea, and no idea what he looks like, or really, how he came to be as devoted as she knows he isContinue reading “Christiana A. – Identities Colliding (Structured)”