Category: Miscellaneous
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Happy National Science Fiction Day
National Science Fiction Day (today, January 2) feels like permission. Permission to look up from the practical, the predictable, the already-mapped—and ask, what if the universe has a sense of humor? I’ve loved science fiction for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was captivated by Star Trek: The Original Series—not just…
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Happy New Year
Did you know that New Year’s Resolution Week is actually a thing and takes place each year from January 1 until January 7? The first week of January is when optimism does cardio. Gyms are full. Planners are untouched. Everyone is definitely becoming a better person this time. And then statistics do what they always…
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Mongolia, Metal, and the Languages We Invent to Understand the Stars
Today, December 29, is Mongolia’s Independence Day — a date that rarely appears on international calendars, yet carries a quiet, enduring gravity. On December 29, 1911, Mongolia declared independence from Qing rule, reclaiming sovereignty after centuries of external control. It was not a loud revolution. It was an act of remembrance — a return to…
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Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts
A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does…
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Happy Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day
Depending on where you live, you’re reading this in a different moment than I wrote it — hours into my future, or hours behind my present. That’s its own quiet form of time travel. So, in the spirit of Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day, (happening on December 8), I’m hopping across those time…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 